I think this is an oversight in FreeDOS 1.3. I did review UDVD2 and the others and said they were ok for FreeDOS 1.3. They are listed as such (green) on the Packages page. http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Packages
Unless I'm missing something? Jim On Mon, Mar 9, 2020, 5:59 AM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Rugxulo, Jerome, Jim et al, > > > The full 1.2 release was from late 2016 / early 2017. > > It hasn't changed. > > Good point, although 1.3 is still pending, so people > might still want to update while they only have 1.2. > > > As far as I'm concerned, UIDE [sic] died in 2015. > > Another reason to switch to UHDD and UDVD2. > > > That makes no sense (to me). UHDD.SYS (from 2015) indeed had a > > surprise update in early 2019 (dunno what changed, ask Jim), but > > UDVD2.SYS is still dated 2015. > > > > * > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/uide/ > > > > "It would probably be better" ... if XIDE/XHDD/XDVD2 (or whatever he > > calls it nowadays) wasn't unjustly "closed source" for five years! > > You do know that the 2019 version *does* include full sources > of UDVD2, UHDD, UIDE and XMGR, I hope. And I do *not* remember > attempts by other programmers to update them which would have > failed during the period when sources were unpublished, simply > because low level drivers rarely get updates from new people. > > Replying to my list, you ask for more exact descriptions of the > improvements in the currently-on-ibiblio 2019 UHDD and UDVD2: > > Better performance: UHDD 10% faster with read-ahead than UIDE. > > 386 compatibility: UHDD can run on 386, while UIDE follows old > Microsoft advice which causes XMS move errors on older 386 CPU. > > Improved drive detection and LBA: UHDD supports DMA on SSD (as > well as CF) which claim to be "ATA / ATAPI" while UIDE would > have ignored them as potentially optical, expecting *only* ATA > to be supported. UIDE supports only old LBA for the first 128 > GB, while UHDD supports LBA48 and larger disks. Note that DOS > itself has a 2 TB limit until somebody adds GPT partition code. > > Because UHDD (and UDVD2, in spite of being "old") recognize > more drives as DMA/UDMA compatible, without false positives, > they give much better performance in those cases compared to > situations where UIDE fails to detect the DMA support. This > can mean up to several *times* faster in EMM386 context, as > a BIOS would rarely bother to call the VDMA API to support > fast protected mode or VM86 disks on DMA and rather use PIO. > > > How is that even possible? Too many versions, too many > > (alleged) bug fixes! Ridiculous! > > Being too annoyed to look at the new version will not make > the new version worse. That is just your personal opinion. > > > These decisions (for FD 1.3) rely mostly on Jerome and Jim. > > Then I recommend UHDD and UDVD2 to Jerome and Jim, specifically. > > Regards, Eric > > PS: The drivers are deliberately freeware with sources without > giving a specific license as the author is against fine print. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
_______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
