Could this be the cause of so many diskette formatting failures in FreeDOS?
I have to resort to either booting in Compaq DOS 3.31 or using 3rd party
formatting tools such as FMT or Nformat.
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> I am playing a bit with a 8086 PC these days, and I noticed an ugly
> difference on it between FreeDOS and MSDOS 3.3:
>
> MSDOS 3.3 keeps the content of last read sectors of the diskette in a
> cache, while FreeDOS does not. This means that FreeDOS is accessing the
> FDD much more often than MSDOS, which makes it overally crawling (and
> frustrating). There is no special configuration on the MSDOS side, only
> a "BUFFERS=17" directive in config.sys. I did reproduce it on FreeDOS,
> but it hasn't improved FDD caching at all.
>
> Question -- is there any way I could install a diskette cache on
> FreeDOS? If not supported by the kernel right away (as seems to be the
> case in MSDOS), maybe some additional (preferably free) tool could help?
> Unfortunately LBACACHE is 386-only, and UIDE requires XMS. What I'd need
> is a small cache of a few KB that sits in conventional memory...
>
> Mateusz
>
>
>
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