Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS smartdrv, CDROM and DVD drivers

2011-04-07 Thread Santiago Almenara
Thanks Eric, for all the help. Sorry I haven't answered before. Right now, I am using the original config files from the installation. It means I am using: xcdrom.sys, lbacache and cdrcache. I'll change these 3 options for UIDE. Let me read a little about UIDE before I ask about its best

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS smartdrv, CDROM and DVD drivers

2011-04-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Santiago, list, to follow-up myself on caches and CDROM: Of course it does not help to have two caches in parallel, so if you use lbacache or cdrcache, you should switch off the caching functionality in UIDE. The XCDROM / GCDROM family of CD / DVD / BD drivers is too outdated to be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS smartdrv, CDROM and DVD drivers

2011-04-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, below I copy a message from Jack, the author of UIDEJR, with more details and some corrections to my previous mail here. I think 3280 bytes is still very small for an universal SATA and IDE/ATAPI CD/DVD/BD driver. And you can even put part of the driver in the HMA if your UMBs are