Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

2012-01-20 Thread Travis Siegel
On Jan 14, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Eric Auer wrote: are simply too small to be bootable anyway. I wonder if you should be able to boot from nonstandard sector sizes at all - for example a CD- ROM does not even have a FAT filesystem, so why would you boot from a (raw!) CD-ROM then? Booting from cds

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

2012-01-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 14-1-2012 19:48, Bertho Grandpied schreef: It's been a few days and I'm surprised my first mail hasn't been acknowledged in any way, let alone answered; strange, I've been part of various lists before, usually 'newbies' are greeted rather than ignored altogether. So I'll reiterate and

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

2012-01-14 Thread Eric Auer
Replaying a 12 May 2005 mail :-) [Freedos-kernel] Analysis: Support for sector sizes != 512 bytes Hi, I have browsed the CVS kernel a bit, and got the impression that it would not be too hard to support sector sizes below 512 bytes (32, 64, 128 and 256 bytes should be possible). For sector

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

2012-01-14 Thread Kenneth Davis
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Replaying a 12 May 2005 mail :-) [Freedos-kernel] Analysis: Support for sector sizes != 512 bytes Hi, I have browsed the CVS kernel a bit, and got the impression that it would not be too hard to support sector sizes below

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

2012-01-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jeremy :-) Replaying a 12 May 2005 mail :-) [Freedos-kernel] Analysis: Support for sector sizes != 512 bytes Thank you for reviewing and providing a suggested road map. Well, that old mail is nice for reference, but I would still say: So I suggest to support nonstandard sector sizes