There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that,
as you expected, there's only a small difference between a big write
cache with a long delay and a small write cache with a short delay.
The bad news is that I found some big performance problems (in
reading and
Here is what I've found:
1) The error is repeatable.
I used UKA17X2.EXE to produce this error over and over again.
UKA17X2 creates ~300 files. Other pgms that create a lot of
files could probably be used just as well.
Here is the sequence that I used to reproduce the error:
Arkady V.Belousov writes:
21-???-2006 14:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to
snI will ask this question: If FreeDOS is released as is, and users
sn start seeing these msgs on their PCs, will they know that the problem
sn is *not* caused by FreeDOS?
So, you think,
Michael Devore wrote:
At 02:50 PM 8/21/2006 -0600, Eddie wrote:
I was really hoping that this problem had been silently fixed by
all of the other work that has been done recently.
Doesn't look VDS-related, the executable only uses a couple of common calls
there. Not much more I can
Blair Campbell wrote:
Those are more likely ISOLinux issues, and most users will probably
not be using PART (which seems to interpret ISOLinux somehow as a
virus, which would somewhat seem like a PART bug to me at least).
I figured that ISOLinux might be the culprit since PART was
This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching
enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the
problem.
I haven't pinned it down yet but the problem seems to occur with
more than just one pgm. I've seen it when installing UKA17X2 (i.e.
UKA_PPP),
Arkady V.Belousov wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
sn h) Boot from first harddisk (0x80)
sn I fell into this because of the timeout. The next two lines on the
sn screen are:
sn Booting from local disk...
sn Virus!!!
This may be message from BIOS (if there is turned on
Continuing on the escape menu
This menu is apparently inevitable. The installation process
shows this menu regardless of what you choose on the preceding menu.
E.g. after the previous tests, I created and formatted a new
~120MB partition just for FreeDOS. Then I rebooted from the
Test environment
.486DX4-100 w/32MB RAM
.ATAPI cdrom drive
.500MB hdd (with ~120MB of unused (no partition defined there)
space)
.The hdd also contains 2 ~60MB primary partitions and a ~250MB
extended partition (which contains a few more (logical)
partitions). All
