DOS ain't dead - UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work

UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work (Users)

posted by rr , Berlin, Germany, 03.10.2009, 18:54

I received this message from Jack:
Re: this topic, the comments by RR/Christian/Doug are
all correct: (A) UIDE assigns only one "device name"
to its CD/DVD drives, the last one specified, and (B)
its /N1 and /UX switches are special-purpose only and
are not usually needed. I was unaware that SHCDX33E
will not load without all drivers, as I never load it
using multiple names, but if Jason Hood wrote it this
way, so be it. Also, UIDE "does not care" which XMS
driver is used: XMGR offers special logic for direct
loading into UMBPCI upper-memory but Japheth's HIMEMX
or MS-DOS HIMEM can be used. I would prefer XMGR or
HIMEMX and JEMM386, not MS-DOS HIMEM/EMM386 which are
old, HUGE, have unfixed "bugs" and cannot handle over
64-MB of XMS (only the later "Win95/98" HIMEMs did).

The UIDE displays from Vehudis's system show UIDE did
detect his CD/DVD drives, and the only problem is the
"extra" driver name. If only "Plextor" or "LG", not
both, is used, his system should be fine. I am also
curious if, with no /UX switch, UIDE notes the CD/DVD
drives can use ATA-33 or ATA-66 UltraDMA (a few newer
Plextor drives have ATA-66!) and so work MUCH faster!

Finally, even with only 128-MB of memory, I would use
at least /S80 for an 80-MB cache if this is possible.
UIDE has a "least recently used" caching scheme, so a
big data file may cause "old" directory sectors to be
thrown out, which slows-down the cache when directory
data must be input again. A 40-MB cache is tiny for
today's systems using "God AWFUL!" Gates & Co. files!
80-MB will help, and I recommend using as BIG a cache
as one can, up to 2-GB on systems having 4-GB memory!

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Complete thread:

UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - Vehudis, 01.10.2009, 21:13 (Users)
- UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - rr, 01.10.2009, 23:26
  - UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - ecm, 02.10.2009, 13:54
- UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - sol, 01.10.2009, 23:32
- UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - Doug, 02.10.2009, 02:59
  - UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - ecm, 02.10.2009, 13:47
- UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - rr, 03.10.2009, 18:54
- UIDE and SHSUCDX work - Vehudis, 05.10.2009, 21:39
  - UIDE and SHSUCDX work - rr, 08.10.2009, 17:02