Re: [Freedos-user] display command
SD is alot cheaper to make than CF. SD is one bit at a time while CF is 8 bits at a time. If they both use the same clock which do you think is faster. cheers DS On Fri, 2 May 2014 20:49:36 -0400 dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: SD flash is a serial device similiar to rs232 but compact flash has the same interface as an ide hard drive.Pin for pin they are the same. SD chips are very slow but cf are fast. If you look at comparative benchmarks, I think you'll discover that SD is faster overall than CF. And in any case, the CF format seems largely deprecated these days. Pretty much everything now is SD. (And on bigger systems, note that IDE is going away, replaced by SATA, which is also a serial interface, SATA drives are *faster* than IDE.) I used idecheck to clock a travelstar hard drive it was 7 mbs while a Sandisk extreme iv clocked at 14 mbs. Then you add that there are zero head seeks and you get a nice speed boost. syscheck.exe reported a through put at over 2 gigs per sec. Use what pleases you. My point was that the drive *media* was all NAND flash, regardless of what form factor the drive used. The particular flash media and the controller will have more to do with the speed than whether it's CF, SD, or SSD. Now why doesn't display work for vga. The topic arose here before, with someone else having a similar problem. Eric Auer's response was Not sure if this helps, but DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1) should be sufficient for all your needs. For the font support,EGA is pretty much the same as VGA and display only is for loading custom fonts. If you do not plan to load a non-BIOS font, you do not even need display at all. The documentation of an older version says that VGA did set a certain number of font sizes, while EGA autodetected which font sizes exist (usually 8x8, 14 and 16 pixels). Looking at the source, EGA meant autodetect, EGA 8 did mean one font, LCD the same, EGA 14 two fonts, VGA did mean three fonts and only CGA meant different hardware. Note that newer VGA BIOS may miss 8x14 built-in fonts, but you can load a custom DOS font instead. There also are tools doing ONLY that, using less RAM than DISPLAY. Bottom line, just use DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1), and you should be good to go. DS. __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 - - Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user Stop Insomnia in 2 Weeks Use the Fisher Wallace Stimulator® for 20 minutes before bedtime http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/5365070a62eaa7095fcfmp10duc ** From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *** -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] display command
The thing that troubles me is that when you are in FREEDOS and type help display; the example given for its use is VGA. When you put it in verbatium, it doesn't work. Strange to give a help example that doesn't work. cheers DS . On Sat, 3 May 2014 00:19:20 GMT Bret Johnson bretj...@juno.com writes: Quoting from the MS-DOS 6.22 Help program (HELP DISPLAY.SYS at a command prompt): The EGA value supports both EGA and VGA display adapters. If you omit the type parameter, DISPLAY.SYS checks the hardware to determine which display adapter is in use. You can also specify CGA and MONO as values for type, but they have no effect because character set switching is not enabled for these devices. It does help to read the documentation, at least when it is provided (documentation for modern programs is confusing/useless in many cases). - - Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user Stop Insomnia in 2 Weeks Use the Fisher Wallace Stimulator® for 20 minutes before bedtime http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/53650709dcee77095fcfmp10duc ** From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *** -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] display command
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: SD is alot cheaper to make than CF. SD is one bit at a time while CF is 8 bits at a time. If they both use the same clock which do you think is faster. SD. As mentioned, CF is largely dead these days. Do some research on current usage and standards, and things like SATA vs IDE. Your knowledge is *way* out of date. DS __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Load file sys driver in dconfig.sys?
Is it possible to load an exe file system driver in dconfig.sys? I have a DOS HPFS driver that works OK, but I would like it to get a drive letter before the DVDs. What is available for reading NTFS used in WXP, W7? TY Ray -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Load file sys driver in dconfig.sys?
On Sun, 04 May 2014 01:29:32 +0200, Ray Davison ray...@charter.net wrote: What is available for reading NTFS used in WXP, W7? There are three NTFS drivers I know of. I have tested all of them. NTFSDOS: Commercial, no longer sold. The trial version is read-only. Requires files from a Windows installation. No long file names. Takes up a large amount of conventional memory, over 100K. Can't be unloaded. Likes to crash on startup if the NTFS partition is partially corrupted. Paragon NTFS: Freeware (not sure)? Read/write, although I have experienced data corruption when writing. Supports long file names, but it was very unstable for me when using them. Can be unloaded. Avira NTFS4DOS: Unsupported freeware, personal use only. Has an annoying nagscreen at startup. Most reliable, but I still wouldn't trust it for writing data. Can't be unloaded. An annoying quirk is that it doesn't show . and .. entries in a directory, but CD'ing in FreeCOM works fine. -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
