At 05:10 PM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > > From: "Ralf A. Quint" <f...@gmx.net> > > > At 02:45 PM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > >>Case in point : unless explicitly excluded, MS-not-so-Smart-Drive > >>will happily cache certain RAMdisks (not MS ramdrive) > > > What ramdisks would that be? > >Your question is challenging my memory big time - I think it was >seen with XMSDISK (and cousins thereof) but could've been some other ramdisks. > > > A ramdisk that is properly identifying > > itself as such should not be cached by Smartdrive, if it > > doesn't, it is not the fault of Smartdrive... > >Raises the question of what a Ramdisk should do in order to >"properly" identify itself to smartdrv... impersonate MS-RAMDRIVE, maybe ;=)
For starters, use a media descriptor byte value of 0xFA in the BPB... >I suspect a mix of bad faith and lazy coding on behalf of MS, but - >whose "fault" ever it may be, the problem - once recognised! - was >easily worked around by explicitly excluding the RD on smartdrive's >command line. yeah, that good old "Microsoft bashing without hard facts" trick, never gets old... :-( Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
