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2.05 1994-01-31
- Most of SRDISK registrations have been coming from Germany. Now SRDISK
has an authorized vendor for SRDISK users in Germany, Austria and all
neighbouring countries with German language. Software News is the vendor
for Swiss users. See DEUTSCH.DOC for details.
- New option /REMOVABLE:OFF that allows making the disk appear not
removable. This is just to help fool some ill behaved programs.
Something not to be used unless you really have to.
- MS-DOS InterSvr could not access SRDISK drive. There is a slight bug
in InterSvr which revealed a slight bug in SRDISK. SRDISK fixed so the
InterSvr bug does not cause trouble.
- SRDISK now assumes less what happened when an allocation failed. This
results in tidier behaviour in error situation with some memory
managers.
- SRDUMMY.SYS fixed to report error if DOS does not tell the driver the
letter where it is about to be installed by DOS.
There are still problems with Stacker 3.1 (at least). Seems Stacker
makes DOS report wrong drive letters to block devices like SRDISK loaded
after it.
2.04 1993-05-19
I must address my sincere thanks to Bruce, Jeremy and Theo for reporting
the problems they were having. I do not have the resources to test every
feature for every release and therefore there can be some bugs which I
can not spot without your help. Again, thanks.
- Partial rewrite on the internal logic by which SRDISK.EXE works. Some
small details changed for better.
- Serious bugs fixed in calculating the format for over 32M disks.
- Resizing had some overflow errors for over 65535 sector disks (usually
over 32M disks) resulting in damaged disk contents.
- Serious bugs in device drivers especially when appending to another
driver fixed.
- Updated XMS interface to use XMS 3.0 32-bit functions when necessary.
Thus you can allocate over 64M disks using XMS (provided you have that
much memory and your memory manager supports it).
- Improved DOS 3.2 compatibility. Now SRDISK finds it's drive letter
correctly and /E switch works for first COMMAND.COM too.
- Improved /MAXSIZE and /FREE:n options' operation for XMS memory. They
now often result in larger disks and become not smaller than necessary.
- Added /F:2880 for 2.88M disk image emulation.
- /M option now works again for multiple devices.
- Added SUOMI.DOC for Finnish users.
- Removed some empty lines from output.
2.03 1993-04-22
This is not as big upgrade as I thought I make it. The reason is that
the new features I have been planning would be best added by rewriting
somewhat large portions of the software and it takes time. This upgrade
adds a few of the most requested features and addresses some problems in
MS-Windows.
- ReSizeable RAMDisk now has a support BBS in the United States of
America, Illinois, Palatino:
The Midrange System BBS
Sysop: David Gibbs
FidoNet: 1:115/439
Phones: 708-776-1062 and 708-776-1063, both have HST and V.32
Using Remote Access
Latest SRDISK is available via file request using magic file name
SRDISK.
- Options /MAXSIZE and /FREEMEM:n to determine disk size so that no or
specified amount of memory left free.
- Added device driver SRDUMMY.SYS to use up drive letters. You can give
it as a parameter the drive letter the next drive should be loaded at.
This was requested by some users so that they can reserve drive letters
for network, CD-ROMs and keep the RAM drive at a fixed drive letter.
Some after bootup device driver loaders are more memory efficient fix
for this problem though.
- Added device driver SRDEMS3.SYS. This uses only EMS 3.2 calls and is
good to avoid MS-Windows 3.1 bugs in EMS emulation. There still is no
way you can resize disk inside Windows. If you do that, the memory is
freed by Windows when you exit the DOS session.
2.02 1993-01-27
- Fixed a problem with /ENV switch. It had a loose pointer that could
mess up with some parameters or cause a null pointer assignment message.
- Installed code for registration reminder and registration keys. The
reminder is not big, but I guess registered users do not want to see it.
2.01 1993-01-08
- Option /AVAILABLE:n added to resize the disk to the size when it has
n Kbytes space available.
- Option /MINSIZE added to resize the disk to the smallest size
possible or disable it if there is no data on it. This is the same as
/AVAILABLE:0
- Option /FILESPACE:n added to resize the disk to the size when it has
n Kbytes space for files.
- Added some ERRORLEVEL returns. SRDISK.EXE should now returns nonzero
ERRORLEVEL, if there were problems with the format (errors, failure,
would destroy contents, but not allowed to).
- Aborted formatting could enable the disk although no memory was
allocated for it. Error handling fixed.
- Setting environment variables did not work with DOS prior to version
3.30. Changed environment variable setting so that it does not try to
find the command processor, but just modifies the parent's environment.
Also it is better made sure that the parent is real.
- Device drivers did not detect read/write errors. Now it is detected
that MS-Windows Enhanced mode does not emulate EMS 4.0 correctly and
causes errors.
- Disabled possibility to allocate disk while in MS-Windows Enhanced
mode. Windows frees the memory allocated by the program when the DOS
window is closed, so the disk memory would be lost then.
- A number of other bugs removed and features cleaned.
2.00 1992-12-12
- Memory allocation bug that gave XMS error A7 removed.
- Disk resizing could change the reported size of clusters at some rare
cases although the cluster size was not changed.
- Now asks if disk contents are to be removed if all the old data can
not fit the new disk being created.
2.00 BETA 3 1992-11-06 A pre-release version for the version 2.0
- Made two versions of the device drivers: full featured and small.
- Full featured device drivers now have their own stack so that user
need not care of it. Small device drivers do not have this.
- Optimized some code for faster operation.
- Fixed a problem with root directory sectors being cleared with resize.
- DR-DOS problems solved. The device driver did not preserve flags and
this seemed to have caused the trouble with DR-DOS.
- Now should correctly estimate the available memory size before trying
to format. Still possible to fail with XMS though - this is due to the
incomplete services of XMS.
- Memory allocation while preserving disk contents fixed.
2.00 BETA 2 A pre-release version for the version 2.0
- Memory allocation while preserving disk contents fixed.
- Changed the multiplex number back to what it was in 1.x versions. BETA
1 had a different number so that it will not conflict with existing 1.x
version disk.
- Boot sector is now updated correctly when disk is resized. Thus you
can diskcopy a disk into RAM disk, resize it and diskcopy it to a disk
of another format - great for boot disks too!
2.00 BETA 1 A pre-release version for the version 2.0
- SRDISK now tries to preserve the disk contents by default.
- Device driver SRDEMS.SYS for EMS memory support. Requires EMS version
4.0.
- Device drivers are now compatible with DOS DISKCOPY command. Use
SRDISK /F switch to configure SRDISK to the same format as the floppy
and you can then diskcopy between the floppy and RAM Disk. Great for
disk duplication - no need to swap the disks any more. Also DISKCOPY
to/from the floppy is much faster than copying each file one by one.
- Alternative command line options and some new options. The longer
options can be shortened if they remain unambiguous.
- /U (or /UNCONDITIONAL or /ERASE) switch can be used to clear the disk.
- /F (or /DOSFORMAT) has many FDFORMAT disk sizes and formats added. The
available sizes are listed in SRDISK.DOC.
- New options are added to better support different floppy formats:
/MEDIA:n - Defines the media ID byte