All this talk about UIDE prompted me to investigate this tool. It looks
interesting. How does the caching work for disk writes? I assume that when
the cache is full the next sector read in will cause the oldest sector to be
written out?
Is there any sort of a timer which will flush the cache
I don't know whether the information below is of any value, but
I'm reporting it anyway, just in case.
I have been using UIDE for almost a year in one desktop and two
notebooks, blissfully unaware that hard disks are not supposed to
sleep.
All three computers were set to spin down their disks. E
Eric,
> Of course DOS will freeze for a short moment when it has to
> wait for a harddisk to spin up again, but as I never had a
> bigger problem than that with power-saving in DOS without
> UIDE, I would like to suggest the opposite of what the UIDE
> readme.txt seems to say at the moment:
>
> C
Hi Marcos, Jack,
> Readme.Txt says "Power-saving features such as a 'drive
> spin-down timeout' should be DISABLED".
...
> Is that what I should disable? If so, does this mean that
> the hard disk must keep running all the time if UIDE is used?
Of course DOS will freeze for a sho
Hi,
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
wrote:
>> This is CHKDSK beta 0.9.1
>>
>> If there is a sub-directory present on a floppy, CHKDSK report seems
>> normal. If there is no sub-directory - whether or not there are files:
>>
>> "Assertion failed: size, file bitfi
> This is CHKDSK beta 0.9.1
>
> If there is a sub-directory present on a floppy, CHKDSK report seems
> normal. If there is no sub-directory - whether or not there are files:
>
> "Assertion failed: size, file bitfield.c, line 34
> Abnormal program termination"
>
> Is this to be expected?
ChkDsk be
Hi Ray,
> This is CHKDSK beta 0.9.1
>
> If there is a sub-directory present on a floppy, CHKDSK report seems
> normal. If there is no sub-directory - whether or not there are files:
>
> "Assertion failed: size, file bitfield.c, line 34
> Abnormal program termination"
>
> Is this to be expect