Re: [Freedos-user] CHKDSK on floppy

2011-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
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 expected? No. I

[Freedos-user] CHKDSK on floppy

2011-05-13 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
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 beta 0.9.2

Re: [Freedos-user] CHKDSK on floppy

2011-05-13 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br 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,

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE

2011-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
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 short

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE

2011-05-13 Thread Jack
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: Could

[Freedos-user] UIDE

2011-05-13 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
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.

[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