Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

On Saturday, March 28, 2020 6:34 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: > Hi Mercury, some short answers :-) > I think dates as version numbers are fine when there is no explicit version > numbering. I would use the date of the most recent file, leave the decision > to you whether that means th

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi, > On Mar 27, 2020, at 11:03 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Hi Jerome, Eric! > > > On Friday, March 27, 2020 1:16 PM, Jerome Shidel jer...@shidel.net > wrote: > > Hi Eric, > I took a quick look. > There is some minor confusion and package is

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Mercury, some short answers :-) I think dates as version numbers are fine when there is no explicit version numbering. I would use the date of the most recent file, leave the decision to you whether that means the version is this week since YOU yourself have made per-driver excerpts of the re

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Jerome, Eric! On Friday, March 27, 2020 1:16 PM, Jerome Shidel jer...@shidel.net wrote: > Hi Eric, > I took a quick look. > There is some minor confusion and package issues and they cannot be replace > the current packages “AS-IS”. > At a glance… > Are they all newer than the ones already in

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Eric, > On Mar 27, 2020, at 7:16 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> The package UIDE contains UHDD. >> It was updated to the latest versions almost a year ago. > > Mercury has recently created separate packages for > all different drivers, with separate readme, source > and so on.

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Jerome, > The package UIDE contains UHDD. > It was updated to the latest versions almost a year ago. Mercury has recently created separate packages for all different drivers, with separate readme, source and so on. Please use those for 1.3, so people do not have to search for UHDD in the UID

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

The package UIDE contains UHDD. It was updated to the latest versions almost a year ago. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-html/uide.html _

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Rugxulo, Skipping over the FUD undertone, here are some answers :-) Yes the UHDD updates in 2019 are useful and by the author. Yes UHDD + UDVD2 works better than using only UIDE alone. No this is not about RDISK or XMGR updates, although if you can be more specific, I can check whether ibibl

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Gruess Gott, On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:59 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > > As far as I'm concerned, UIDE [sic] died in 2015. > > Another reason to switch to UHDD and UDVD2. I meant that I'm only personally aware of the 2015 "drivers" (long ago abandoned). I was not directly informed of the later "ad hoc

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Jim, > I think this is an oversight in FreeDOS 1.3. I did review UDVD2 and the > others and said they were ok for FreeDOS 1.3. They are listed as such > (green) on the Packages page. > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Packages > > Unless I'm missing something? I agree: It

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

I think this is an oversight in FreeDOS 1.3. I did review UDVD2 and the others and said they were ok for FreeDOS 1.3. They are listed as such (green) on the Packages page. http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Packages Unless I'm missing something? Jim On Mon, Mar 9, 2020, 5:59 AM

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Rugxulo, Jerome, Jim et al, > The full 1.2 release was from late 2016 / early 2017. > It hasn't changed. Good point, although 1.3 is still pending, so people might still want to update while they only have 1.2. > As far as I'm concerned, UIDE [sic] died in 2015. Another reason to switch to

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2

Gruess Gott, On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 10:12 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > It seems that FreeDOS 1.2 currently includes UIDE. "Currently"?? The full 1.2 release was from late 2016 / early 2017. It hasn't changed. As far as I'm concerned, UIDE [sic] died in 2015. > It would probably be better to use UHD

[Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2

Hi! It seems that FreeDOS 1.2 currently includes UIDE. It would probably be better to use UHDD and UDVD2 instead: Those have better performance and better 80386 style XMS compatibility on old computers, as well as improved drive detection, DMA choices, support for disks above 128 GB size and mo