Kevin Lawton wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi plex86 hackers,
> >
> > During the christmas holidays I have done some plex86 hacking because I
> > liked the idea of booting the normal Win98 partition from my dual boot
> > Linux machine with 6 gigabyte harddisk.
> >
> > The strategy was to ignore plex86 diskwrites, so the win98 image would
> > not be damaged.
>
> Cool! The write-cache (for persistent disks) idea I wrote about
> would work well for allowing writes, yet not commit the changes
> to your partition.
>
> When you submit the BIOS changes, I'll have a look at them and
> commit them if they look good.
Hi Kevin,
When the LBA BIOS changes are done, I'll look at (in order):
- Adding better cdrom support to the BIOS (boot from cdrom)
- Creating a striping option for harddrv.cc:
The idea is that instead of opening an image file "15000Mb", the
driver will look if the files "15000Mb.0" ... "15000Mb.9" exist.
Each of these parts must be of equal size and smaller than 2Gb.
This will give the user the option to create image files up to
20Gb in a portable manner
- Look at the write cache feature you suggested
I'm not sure these will be finished before 2001 starts, but I'll
like to allocate these tasks to avoid duplicated efforts by
other plex86 developers...
Tom
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