Zbigniew, >> Why, after using UltraDMA and caching, >> would anyone ever WANT to "unload" such a driver??!! > > Well, yes, this is the question.
Do tell THAT to all the "unloadable driver" FREAKS, who have "beset me" in past years about making UIDE unload! I am glad that you are "on the air" (running O.K.) with the UIDE drivers! You can decide if your system works best using UIDE (goes up to 4-GB caches) or using UIDE2 (about 5% faster with protected-mode). In either case do try loading them in AUTOEXEC.BAT with -- DEVLOAD /H C:\...\UIDE2.SYS /S511 /H /D:CDROM1 Using DEVLOAD permits the driver to keep only 928 bytes of data, entry/exit routines and stack in upper-memory. All else, including UIDE2's binary-search table, can be moved into unused HMA space and run from there. As I noted before, the FreeDOS kernel doesn't make HMA space available to drivers until AUTOEXEC is run, so you must use a DEVLOAD command in AUTOEXEC, if you want UIDE2 to run with FreeDOS from the HMA. Then, you will be able to "amaze" friends with your only 928-byte disk/CD/DVD/ caching driver -- Just tell them you know a "Sorcerer"! Best wishes, Jack R. Ellis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
