Hi!
Where?
in a previous message. Tom wants to collect results about UDMA2.SYS compatibility. It's a driver to set IDE devices (not ATAPI, only IDE) from PIO into UDMA mode.
Result will be usefull for his own software (partition imaging product), but also for FreeDOS community.
te> one VERY important thing: what information to provide.
For what?
Testing report about compatibility between UDMA2.SYS and the physical system that the user tests this driver on.
"UDMA" - as some driver? From which URL I may get this driver?
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/udma/devel/udma2_20.zip (93KB)
te> AMD/Intel CPU te> approximate age
Age of who/what? Mine? Shiping date of case, CPU, mboard? Date of their manufacturing? Date of "releasing" press-release?
age of complete computersystem I think. Incompatibility with new system should indicate that you ask your BIOS manufacturer for a new BIOS which fixes things. Incompatibility with an ancient computer shows that UDMA2.SYS driver might need more workarounds.
te> and - of course - GOOD, BAD, HARMLESS
May you explain, what you poll?
poll about how compatible UDMA2.SYS driver is with the system. GOOD : loads correctly BAD : crashes system or makes it unstable HARMLESS: aborts safely on error
My example: using UDMA2.SYS in VMware emulator, with no harddisk in that emulated environment, causes "Bus-Master setup BAD; driver NOT loaded!" message, instead of "No disks to use; driver NOT loaded!"
That's an emulation error, probably.
I've also noted that UDMA2 might help with the VDS feature of EMM386 driver, but I probably should check that again.
Bernd
------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
