Eric Auer-3 wrote: > > ... > I find it a very good idea in USB drivers to support the ASPI API so other > drivers and client apps can use > that to access the drives in question :-) >
I disagree. ASPI and INT 13h are essentially competitive technologies, not complementary. If a disk can be accessed via one of the two methods, the other method isn't (or at least shouldn't be) necessary. Implementing both methods for the same disk is a waste of resources. However, in the particular case of DOS, I think the "preferred" method, by far, is INT 13h (at least in the case of DASD/hard/flash drives). There simply aren't very many ASPI utilities for DOS, and likely never will be. All of the "common" low-level DOS utilities that everyone is already familiar with (FDISK, NTFS drivers, caching programs like UIDE and LBACACHE, etc.) require INT 13h. Eric Auer-3 wrote: > > Once an "ASPI to block device driver" is loaded, FORMAT should work as > well. As said, no free open driver for the ASPI to block connection exists > yet, but it seems to have relatively low complexity. > I think that's true for high-level formats (the kind done by FORMAT). Low-level formats, though rarely needed these days, do require INT 13h or an ASPI-specific utility. At least in DOS, I don't see where any value is created by adding an ASPI interface if an INT 13h interface already exists. The reverse is not true, however. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/USB-ASPI-to-DOS%2C-4K-sectors.-tp33223596p33229775.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
