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another regression in 0.10.0 (Announce)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 21.03.2009, 11:53

There's another regression in 0.10.0 concerning Ultra-DMA: if JLM XDMA32.DLL is loaded, option /B must be used. Same is probably true for XCDROM32.DLL as well.

The speed differences are significant. Some results with IDECHECK, which reads HDs with Int 13h (using an 200MB image):

- no XDMA32.DLL loaded: ~ 25 MB/sec
- XDMA32.DLL /B ~ 73 MB/sec
- XDMA32.DLL ~ 130 MB/sec

With Qemu v0.91, XDMA32.DLL without option /B worked - and was even faster than with v0.10.0: ~ 195 MB/sec.

background: /B uses a buffer in XMS extended memory for UDMA read/writes.

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