Andrew, > I anticipate replacing the dying and clunky old hard-drives for SD > cards on a 44-pin IDE adapter for better performance and improved > efficiency. I imagine that the recent improvements with FreeDOS' > EIDE would facilitate a hardware upgrade like that - am I > understanding that correctly, please?
I am the author of the UIDE disk/CD/DVD caching driver, and I assume your reference to "EIDE" is in fact addressing the UIDE driver. I have not tested UIDE with "SSD" disks, nor has anyone commented on such testing. FreeDOS users are often "Charlie Poor-Boys" with not enough extra money for such "luxury" equipment. The best I can say is that you should "test" UIDE on your systems using SSD disks. If they "respond" the same as normal hard-disks, including all PCI init functions, UIDE should "pick them up" and run them O.K. If not, only a minor loss, as SSD disks are so fast that they really should not need caching. You can then run UIDE with its /N1 switch which causes it to ignore hard-disks but continue to cache diskettes and CD/DVD drives. They need caching, for they are otherwise SLOW! Jack R. Ellis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA® Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
