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Thread ID: 115249 2011-01-09 20:52:00 Serial ports and Dos Machines mask77 (16166) Press F1
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1168387 2011-01-10 23:12:00 Is SATA\AHCI enabled on your eSATA drive? or just running IDE emulation mode? Agent_24 (57)
1168388 2011-01-10 23:29:00 Is SATA\AHCI enabled on your eSATA drive? or just running IDE emulation mode?

Ah yes of course, running IDE emulation mode, so I suppose one would expect dos to run ok :)
Terry Porritt (14)
1168389 2011-01-11 00:07:00 My GPS uses serial to talk to the computer as does my Step sons Picaxe programming chip so he has just got some serial to USB adapters which I will try as soon as they arrive, as I need to be able to connect the GPS to my netbook occasionally when I'm away from home gary67 (56)
1168390 2011-01-12 01:14:00 Is SATA\AHCI enabled on your eSATA drive? or just running IDE emulation mode?

This time I enabled AHCI via registry and BIOS and MSDOS 6.22 still loads ands runs OK on a SATA drive. :clap

One small problem was the computer seemed too fast to run Memmaker, it kept rebooting too quickly before the changes had been made, so memory optimisation would need to be made manually.
Terry Porritt (14)
1168391 2011-01-12 01:36:00 That's interesting. Perhaps DOS is so old it ignores the differences and works anyway?

I think your reboot problem has something to do with new HDDs with large caches, the cached data would not be written to the platter before the power went off.
Agent_24 (57)
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