Hi Frank,
the UDMA driver is old and the UIDE driver is a stripped down, merged version of what you would get when loading both UHDD and UDVD2 separately. So unless you want to boot from a 360k floppy on your Pentium PC with UDMA, you should probably always use UHDD and UDVD2, not the others ;-) Also, please use the newest versions of UDVD2 and UHDD: http://mercurycoding.com/downloads.html#DOS The drivers make access to BIOS disks with UDMA faster, more reliable (load UHDD before EMM386 if your BIOS has EMM386 compatibility issues, for example!) and cached, but they will NOT add drive letters for harddisks or SSD which were not already visible at boot. They WILL help you to add drive letters for CD/DVD/BD drives, together with SHSUCDX (or MSCDEX) which has to be loaded after UDVD2. Note that UDVD2 must be loaded after UHDD to let both share the cache of UHDD :-) Regards, Eric > I'm wondering if loading some driver such as UHDD / UIDE / udma2 > would improve something about large disk support. Won't help you with > the boot disk, but could improve accessibility of the non-boot > drives: > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/udma/deve > l/ > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions > /1.2/repos/drivers/uide.zip > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions > /1.2/repos/drivers/uhdd.zip _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
