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GVFM 2.66 beta /"Drive A" bug (Announce)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 27.12.2007, 23:04

I just tested the 2.66 beta and I unfortunately have to confirm DOS386 observation that the diskette seeking issue is stil present. I make a test under plain MS-DOS 7.1 and inthis environment is all OK. So only problematic behaviour is under FreeDOS. The difference can be also observed on program initialization (while seeking the disk drives?). In MS-DOS it run in few miliseconds and no noise from diskette drive is heard, in FreeDOS it takes slighly more time and I can hear the noise from diskette. BTW: How does the drive searching routine look like?
And I found one bug - if I try to select 32-bit videomode with LFB enabled, GVFM crashes and reboots computer. (with 32b banked mode or 8b or 16b bit mode is it OK)
My graphics card is nVidia GeForce 4 MX with 64MB, VESA 3.0 compatible

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Complete thread:

• Graphic Vision File Manager 2.65 - jaybur, 22.12.2007, 19:21 (Announce)
  • Graphic Vision File Manager 2.65 | "A"-bug - DOS386, 22.12.2007, 20:52
    • Graphic Vision File Manager 2.65 | "A"-bug - jaybur, 22.12.2007, 21:18
      • Graphic Vision File Manager 2.65 | "A"-bug - DOS386, 22.12.2007, 21:41
        • Graphic Vision File Manager 2.65 | "A"-bug - jaybur, 22.12.2007, 21:56
    • Graphic Vision File Manager 2.65 | "A"-bug - Steve, 23.12.2007, 04:58
    • GVFM 2.65 | "A"-bug | FreeDOS "Sep. 15" kernel - Rugxulo, 24.12.2007, 14:32
      • GVFM 2.65 | "A"-bug | FreeDOS "Sep. 15" kernel - jaybur, 26.12.2007, 17:16
  • GVFM 2.66 beta /"Drive A" bug - jaybur, 26.12.2007, 17:42
    • GVFM 2.66 beta / "Drive A" bug / DEC CX LOOP @b - DOS386, 26.12.2007, 22:36
    • GVFM 2.66 beta /"Drive A" bug - Laaca, 27.12.2007, 23:04
      • GVFM 2.66 beta /"Drive A" bug - jaybur, 28.12.2007, 03:47
      • GVFM 2.66 beta /"Drive A" bug - jaybur, 28.12.2007, 05:27
        • GVFM 2.66 beta /"Drive A" bug - Laaca, 28.12.2007, 17:15
          • GVFM 2.66 beta /"Drive A" bug - jaybur, 28.12.2007, 18:56