Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos4Kids (and Kids-at-heart)

2011-11-02 Thread Andrew Robins
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

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos4Kids (and Kids-at-heart)

2011-11-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mike, Andrew, You should look for a product called Disk On Module. They are composed of FLASH chips and are designed to be direct replacements for IDE hard drives. Unlike a lot of CF cards that can be used with an CF to IDE adapter but might not support CHS addressing, DOMs are

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos4Kids (and Kids-at-heart)

2011-11-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again! Sorry to react in two mails, but flash disks are a nice topic :-) 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... In