>> Such disks would have to be "installed" into DOS ... > > OK, so it's trivial to add them into INT $13 and make > available for WDE disk editor, IDEcheck, NTSC4DOS and > other "DOS-independent" tools based on INT $13, but DOS > won't see them for a known design fault of itself ... > what IMHO could and should get fixed. Allowing UIDE > to add them into INT $13 (while now no DOS will see them) > still would be a good idea IMHO.
I doubt other applications would be able to use devices that the main DOS system does not know about. "IMHO", better to leave the BIOS design as-is, as too many people "mess it up" already, and I do not want to be part of that sad list! > BTW, do you support MW-DMA? No, UIDE does not support it. I never saw "hard" specs for multi-word DMA, similar to the 1994 Intel specs for UltraDMA that ARE relatively "hard" and followed by most chip makers. Multi-word DMA never achieved the speed of UltraDMA, anyway. The "standard of the industry" for disk/CD/DVD drives, since about 1997, has been UltraDMA. UIDE permits "PIO mode" for CD/DVD drives, as "audio" and other CD/DVD commands MUST use "PIO mode". No such requirement for hard-disks, and as few old PIO/MWDMA disks remain in service, not "the best use" of my time to add such code in UIDE. Japheth's XDMA32 has it, if you really need it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
