Thanks, mate. However, is there any special configurations on DOS or BIOS? Regards,
Eric On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Lee Eric, > >> Is there any SATA driver available on DOS can access SATA hard drivers? > > The short answer is that you do not need one: You may have > experienced that older versions of Windows cannot see your > SATA drives. This problem does not affect DOS, because DOS > simply uses your BIOS to access drives. The long answer is > that drivers such as UIDE which Bernd mentioned and which > can be found on http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html > may give you faster than BIOS access to your SATA harddisk. > > This is as today, the BIOS is often only used for booting, > so it can happen that speed is not optimal. This can also > be the case for USB sticks, flash drives, memory cards and > card readers and other things which you can boot from with > a modern BIOS - the speed in particular on USB can be low. > > Bret Johnson and Georg Potthast both have DOS USB drivers > to solve that problem, but I think only Bret's driver can > do USB 2.0 speeds. Also, I am not sure whether UIDE works > in AHCI mode. I also think no DOS driver yet uses the NCQ > system where modern multitasking operating systems queue > multiple concurrent read/write requests and let the disk > itself decide how to process them in an efficient order. > > Eric > > PS: The related xcdrom, gcdrom and gxcdrom drivers, plus > maybe again UIDE, also support ATAPI and SATA CD/DVD/BD. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports > standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. > Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great > experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
