Re: [Freedos-user] Basic question on UIDE

2011-05-14 Thread Jack
> All this talk about UIDE prompted me to investigate this tool. > It looks interesting. How does the caching work for disk writes? UIDE uses "Write Through" caching, meaning all output data is written to disk immediately. For SATA/IDE disks handled internally by UIDE, if data fits in one cac

Re: [Freedos-user] Basic question on UIDE

2011-05-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Cordata, > 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? Neither UIDE nor lbacache nor cdrcach

[Freedos-user] Basic question on UIDE

2011-05-13 Thread cordata02
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