Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: Re: Problem with writes to NVMe disk

2025-02-28 Thread Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel
> That makes me wonder: what is the realistic datarate of a 1,5 MB/sec UHCI > connection? Is it really 1,5 MB of transferred data or more like 1/3 of that > (0.5MB/sec) as is the case in USB 2.0? It is similar to USB 2 in that respect, but USB 1 is even a little less efficient than USB 2 in some

[Freedos-devel] Retro7zip 24.09+5 Release

2025-02-28 Thread Darik Horn via Freedos-devel
7-Zip 24.09+5 for DOS is available at: * https://github.com/dajhorn/retro7zip/releases And the PR for the FreeDOS package is: * https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/archiver/7zip/-/merge_requests/2 Enhancements: * Windows NT 3.50 compatibility. Improvements: * All compiler warnings are resolv

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: Re: Problem with writes to NVMe disk

2025-02-28 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
Hallo Herr Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel, am Freitag, 28. Februar 2025 um 00:52 schrieben Sie: >> FreeDOS is much more stable then MS-DOS due ot: >> 1) Eric Auer did a nice job flushing files to disk which lowered considerably >> power failure problems >> 2) It is much better then MS-DOS for com

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: Re: Problem with writes to NVMe disk

2025-02-28 Thread Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel
> Are you sure about the non 512 byte sector support? > The fake RAM disk that I show when a NetDrive drive letter is not connected > uses four 64 byte sectors and FreeDOS can read it just fine. FreeDOS Chkdsk > is > limited to only working on 512 byte sector devices, but normal reads from the >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: Re: Problem with writes to NVMe disk

2025-02-28 Thread Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel
> Yes. With the tiny little difference that we have one broken machine, and no > broken hypervisors. Incorrect. We have a case of a _class_ of broken machines (technically, broken CMS's). The fact that Laaca took the time to isolate the problem on his machine doesn't mean his machine is the on

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS installer & keyboard

2025-02-28 Thread Folkert van Heusden via Freedos-devel
... > The IdleCPU function [2] is a little more complex. It will first try to use > DOS to perform the Idle for power reduction. > However if that is not supported, it will simply fall back on the CPU HLT > instruction. The CPU will remain idle until the > Next interrupt occurs (like keypress, t

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: Re: Problem with writes to NVMe disk

2025-02-28 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
Hallo Herr Kirn Gill II via Freedos-devel, am Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2025 um 23:34 schrieben Sie: > Isn't this the same argument I made for broken hypervisors? Yes. With the tiny little difference that we have one broken machine, and no broken hypervisors. Tom > -- > Kirn Gill II > Mobile: