Re: [Freedos-user] Hard disk drivers - UltraDMA

2005-08-03 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! There is also Eric's LBACACHE. There is a link at www.freedos.org. Bye, Flo -- Unofficial Dr-DOS page --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadm

Re: [Freedos-user] Hard disk drivers - UltraDMA

2005-08-01 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:54:24 +0100, you wrote: Hi Eric T., >Many thanks for your help. The good news is, yes, my program now runs >successfully under FreeDOS. Good news, hope you enjoy the feeling. >Alas, the old (pre-1997) machine I've set up with FreeDOS reports that my >c:\ drive (in LBA m

Re: [Freedos-user] Hard disk drivers

2005-08-01 Thread Eric Twose
Eric T wrote: << hard disk access is poor (noisy and frantic, as it is when booting into Windows safe mode). Bernd wrote: << you could try how your project behaves on a ramdrive. :) Maybe selectively. Most of the output at the moment is going to a debug log file. But the project itself wi

Re: [Freedos-user] Hard disk drivers

2005-08-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Twose schreef: Hi, I'm currently writing a project in C using djgpp that runs in DOS and hopefully soon in FreeDOS. I notice that hard disk access is poor (noisy and frantic, as it is when booting into Windows safe mode). you could try how your project behaves on a ramdrive. * MS RAMDR

Re: [Freedos-user] Hard disk drivers - UltraDMA

2005-08-01 Thread Eric Twose
Johnson Lam wrote: << FreeDOS is DOS compatible, of course not 100% but most of the program works. Dear Johnson, Many thanks for your help. The good news is, yes, my program now runs successfully under FreeDOS. << [noisy, frantic hard drive] is because the UltraDMA mode disabled in BIOS, d

Re: [Freedos-user] Hard disk drivers

2005-08-01 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:40:40 +0100, you wrote: Hi, >I'm currently writing a project in C using djgpp that runs in DOS and >hopefully soon in FreeDOS. I notice that hard disk access is poor (noisy and >frantic, as it is when booting into Windows safe mode). FreeDOS is DOS compatible, of course

[Freedos-user] Hard disk drivers

2005-07-31 Thread Eric Twose
Hi,   I'm currently writing a project in C using djgpp that runs in DOS and hopefully soon in FreeDOS. I notice that hard disk access is poor (noisy and frantic, as it is when booting into Windows safe mode).   Is disk access better under FreeDOS than MS-DOS, and are there any decent drivers