Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/3/2014 1:04 PM, Dave Kerber wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Ralf Quint [mailto:freedos...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 3:41 PM >> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60 >> >> On 12/3/2014 5:23 AM, Dave Kerber

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/3/2014 1:01 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: >> On 12/3/2014 8:36 AM, dmccunney wrote: >>> a plugin." The HTML5 keyword *does* require a codec to decode >>> and stream the content, but the codec will be delivered with the >>> browser and be part of th

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/3/2014 12:58 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: >> On 12/2/2014 6:33 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: >>> FAT16 is limited to 8 gigs but FAT32 goes much higher. I kinda remember >>> Wikopedia saying 2T but could easily be wrong. >>> >> Excuse me? >> FAT16 is li

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Dave Kerber
> -Original Message- > From: Ralf Quint [mailto:freedos...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 3:41 PM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60 > > On 12/3/2014 5:23 AM, Dave Kerber wrote: > > That's an OS and old hardware issue,

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 12/3/2014 8:36 AM, dmccunney wrote: >> a plugin." The HTML5 keyword *does* require a codec to decode >> and stream the content, but the codec will be delivered with the >> browser and be part of the browser environment. You don't need a >> th

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 12/2/2014 6:33 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: >> FAT16 is limited to 8 gigs but FAT32 goes much higher. I kinda remember >> Wikopedia saying 2T but could easily be wrong. >> > Excuse me? > FAT16 is limited to 2 (two) Gigabyte with the 'standard" ma

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Dave Kerber wrote: >> >> > When I try to format very large SD chips with DOS; the >> >> > software just gives up. Small sd chips do format but slowly. >> >> > Large CF chips format in a few seconds. >> >> >> >> That's an OS and old hardware issue, It's not inhere

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/3/2014 8:36 AM, dmccunney wrote: > a plugin." The HTML5 keyword *does* require a codec to decode > and stream the content, but the codec will be delivered with the > browser and be part of the browser environment. You don't need a > third-party program called from the browser. And this is

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/3/2014 5:23 AM, Dave Kerber wrote: > That's an OS and old hardware issue, It's not inherent to SD. > To a certain extent it is. SD has a slower interface than CF does. > That's why all high-end cameras use CF rather than SD cards. > Really? All my clients that use "high-end cameras" (this i

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview 2.60 (digressions)

2014-12-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/2/2014 10:30 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > It was reported recently that SourceForge has changed the way they > allow subscriptions to their email lists. So one guy with an old setup > suddenly couldn't subscribe because his (old Opera) web browser > couldn't validate certificates (or something wei

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/2/2014 4:57 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Serial devices are always slow; I don't know how they get around it. > SD cards are serial like SATA and they really are slow. The hard drive > clock must be super fast to get those speeds. They also have to transfer > handshakes serially. I wonder how

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/2/2014 6:33 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > FAT16 is limited to 8 gigs but FAT32 goes much higher. I kinda remember > Wikopedia saying 2T but could easily be wrong. > Excuse me? FAT16 is limited to 2 (two) Gigabyte with the 'standard" maximum cluster size of 32KB. With the 64GB cluster size supp

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > The DOS format utility is kind of an anachronism at this point. Usually it > takes a long time to format a partition because it's iterating through > every sector of the disk. It's completely unnecessary these days. All it > really needs to do is write a boot sector, FAT, and root dir

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Dale, > I can think of only 2 ways an engineer can get those speeds out of a > serial device. A very fast clock or big external buffers. I think DOS > could handle a fast clock but if they use buffers; DOS may not know > how to use them like windows or Linux. I never used SATA so I can't > say

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Dave Kerber
> -Original Message- > From: dmccunney [mailto:dennis.mccun...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 11:29 AM > To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60 > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Dave Kerber > wrote: > >> -

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:40 AM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 07:55:59 -0500, Matej Horvat > wrote: >> Usually when people say HTML5, they mean the and >> elements,which currently no DOS browser supports. They are a _good_ thing. >> They make it possible to include audio and video w

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Dave Kerber wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: dmccunney [mailto:dennis.mccun...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 8:55 PM >> To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. >> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60 > >> > When I

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Dale E Sterner
Great answer. I usually have to redo flash chips becuse they're set up for camers at the factory. The small boot program in the mbr is for movie cameras not computers. Left unchanged it could do something unpleasent. SD cards are the worse. DOS starts working then quits on big chips. It gets too fa

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Dave Kerber
> -Original Message- > From: dmccunney [mailto:dennis.mccun...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 8:55 PM > To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60 > ... > > When I try to format very large SD chips with DOS; the > so