Cheers Jack and Michael, Apologies, Jack, for my typo - yes I meant UIDE instead. Thank you for your clarification on its caching operation, and I look forward to testing it on a pet project “when my boat comes in”. (Actually, maybe FreeDOS users could justifiably consider themselves as “Frugal Kings” rather than “Charlie Poor-Boys”??) Fingers crossed that I won’t need a BIOS patching for the Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDS’s - I’ve not yet spotted a motherboard I recognise on the FreeBIOS lists (or whatever they are called now) and patching sounds a bit drastic for my expertise level.
Thanks Michael for the heads-up on DOM technology - it had completely missed my radar and after a bit of research I agree with your advise entirely to go with that rather than SDcard/CFcard+IDE adapter, and probably better value over the life of the unit. Looking at various product specs a DOM would probably outlive the laptops I have in mind for them - but any surviving components will just be added to the next candidate to rescue from landfill, Many Thanks Andrew Robins On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 6:39 PM, "Jack" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
