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YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 26.09.2025, 04:57

> > Hm, the webpage also offers the bug fixed versions of disk caching
> drivers
> > UHDD and UIDE. And what is even more noteworty is the fact that it comes
> > with source code. As far I remember these drivers were always
> distrubuted
> > without source code.
>
> Some versions are closed source, others are not.

There have been many renames and changes over the years, so I honestly don't keep track of them all. (Jack has gone closed source three times over many years. He tried to coerce FreeDOS to remove all mirrored old copies too, but that didn't happen.) I don't personally see the point of using his closed source drivers, and now that the BIOS/CSM is long dead, probably few besides us even care.

Johnson Lam's website still lists 1-Jul-22 as last update to the closed source drivers (XHDD, XDVD2, XMGR, RDISK).

It also says this:

> 19-Aug-2025
>
> Bad news! Author Jack Ellis was disconnected from Internet
> due to personal health reason, since his email stop working,
> there's no way to contact him. I wish sometimes later he can
> contact me when back online.

But I don't recommend interacting with him.

Complete thread:

• YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) - RayeR, 25.09.2025, 16:25 (Announce)
  • YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) - Laaca, 25.09.2025, 21:23
    • YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) - mceric, 25.09.2025, 22:27
      • YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) - Rugxulo, 26.09.2025, 04:57
        • YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) - mceric, 26.09.2025, 10:05
        • YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) - RayeR, 26.09.2025, 15:51
  • YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) - boeckmann, 26.09.2025, 10:53
    • YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) - ecm, 26.09.2025, 15:23
    • YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) - bretjohn, 26.09.2025, 23:48
      • YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) - boeckmann, 27.09.2025, 13:12
  • YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) - RayeR, 26.09.2025, 15:55