> DOS might have problems with SATA drive. DOS reads from the harddrive a > lot. > Since SATA is serial (just one bit at a time) The data ransfer rate might > be too slow for DOS to live with. I know I can't get it to run on a SD card > because one bit at a time is just too slow.
back in the good old times, when DOS was popular, PATA disk drives used PIO for transfer, which is limited to (less then) 8 MB/sec. currently, SATA hard disks transfer up to 120 MB/sec and SATA SSDs transfer ~500 MB/sec. this should be fast enough even for DOS. > You won't know until you try it. I don't have the faintest idea what you are doing wrong, but you are doing it the wrong anyway. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
