Hi! To add a bit of clarification:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/uhdd/2021-10-30/uhdd_2021-10-30.zip
The updated UHDD is only 5 kB, the current UDVD2 is less than 4 kB. So the size difference compared to using only UIDE is very small now, with UIDE being 7 kB in size. However, UHDD has new features such as Read Ahead or DMA Caching Overlap, giving you extra speed compared to UIDE. So to get all features, it is best to use the powerful pair of UHDD and UDVD2 for your disk speed, CD/DVD/... and disk and CD/DVD cache needs. For the latter, make sure that UHDD is loaded first, so UDVD2 can detect the already active disk cache: This gives you one unified cache for all drives, both fixed (harddisk/SSD) and optical (CD/DVD etc.) with between a few MB and several GB of cache size - see the docs :-) Regards, Eric PS: Also check out RDISK and XMGR for small-in-memory RAMDISK and HIMEM (XMS/HMA) style drivers by Jack. It is often possible to have part of the drivers in HMA, further reducing DOS memory use. See the docs for more. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
