Hi Eric,
Tests on Windows XP
-------------------
In order to test the filesystem, I wrote a layer of software that allows me to
read/write physical sectors of USB flash disks.
Space limitation
----------------
According to the following piece of code, copied from the function
LBA_Get_Drive_Parameters(), FreeDOS can't read or write beyond 8 GBytes of hard
disk space. Is that correct?
/* verify maximum settings, we can't handle more */
if (lba_bios_parameters.heads > 0xffff ||
lba_bios_parameters.sectors > 0xffff ||
lba_bios_parameters.totalSectHigh != 0)
{
printf("Drive is too large to handle, using only 1st 8 GB\n"
" drive %02x heads %lu sectors %lu , total=0x%lx-%08lx\n",
drive,
(ULONG) lba_bios_parameters.heads,
(ULONG) lba_bios_parameters.sectors,
(ULONG) lba_bios_parameters.totalSect,
(ULONG) lba_bios_parameters.totalSectHigh);
....
}
Enrico
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