[Freedos-devel] FDXMS 0.93

2005-06-08 Thread Alain
during my tests, I tried FDXMS and FDXXMS 0.93 strawberries I get this message: VDISK has been detected. Driver won be installed. Nothing is installed, it must be some BIOS thing. The machine is a PcChips with SiS742 chip, Semprom 2.2GHz. In the docs I found no option to force install. P

Re: [Freedos-devel] UDMA2 testing

2005-06-08 Thread Alain
Hi all, Thanks for all the feedback. I spent all day making tests, the data is very confusing, I will make more tests and some kind of report on friday. Just a few points: emm386 is not responsible for most of the slow-down, most of the time umbpci behaves the same (?) and different combinati

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.03 (minor, for WDOSX)

2005-06-08 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: Notice that I am at off-development status for the summer. This notice directly applies to the clown attempting to revive moribund driver projects so as to locate a developer more pliable to his personal software vision. The notice does not apply to bugfixes and Free

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.03 (minor, for WDOSX)

2005-06-08 Thread Alain
I just tested, it is working fine. thanks, Alain Michael Devore escreveu: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx203.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms203.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. EMM386 Version 2.03 is a minor update, r

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Re: UDMA2 testing

2005-06-08 Thread tom ehlert
>> > > FreeDOSMS-DOS7.10 >> > > UDMA2, no cacheR=6.3 W=4.4R=54.2 W=16.0 >> > > UDMA2, cacheR=5.5 W=4.4R=39.5 W=15.7 >> >>Bernd is probably right: EMM386, in particular Pentium VME-unaware >>versions, can be the main cause of bad FreeDOS perfor

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Re: UDMA2 testing

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:53 PM 6/8/2005 +0200, Eric wrote: > > FreeDOSMS-DOS7.10 > > UDMA2, no cacheR=6.3 W=4.4R=54.2 W=16.0 > > UDMA2, cacheR=5.5 W=4.4R=39.5 W=15.7 Bernd is probably right: EMM386, in particular Pentium VME-unaware versions, can be the main

[Freedos-devel] re: Re: UDMA2 testing

2005-06-08 Thread eric
Hi Alain, Bernd, Johnson, Tom, > > FreeDOSMS-DOS7.10 > > UDMA2, no cacheR=6.3 W=4.4R=54.2 W=16.0 > > UDMA2, cacheR=5.5 W=4.4R=39.5 W=15.7 Bernd is probably right: EMM386, in particular Pentium VME-unaware versions, can be the main cause of

Re: [Freedos-devel] UDMA2 testing

2005-06-08 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Alain, > I just made some tests with UDMA2 and had some unexpected results: > Why is FreeDOS so much slower (60% no UDMA, 14% with UDMA)??? this may depend on file placement and free space fragmentation as well, where MSDOS uses an alghorithm other then freedos what EXACTLY is RAWSPE

[Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.03 (minor, for WDOSX)

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx203.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms203.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. EMM386 Version 2.03 is a minor update, recommended for those using programs which are bound to the WDOSX DOS extende