Re: [Freedos-kernel] Regarding commit 1702 (large sector sizes)

2012-02-09 Thread C. Masloch
Note that the 1702 changes were effectively reversed by 1704. The 1705 changes are unrelated. Wrong From -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Regarding commit 1702 (large sector sizes)

2012-02-08 Thread Tom Ehlert
Dear PerditionC,    UBYTE DiskTransferBuffer[MAX_SEC_SIZE]; wastes 3,5 KB low memory for *everybody*, not only when it's needed. regarding how much time we have spend until we had 64 byte free I think this is a bad idea please see my previous messages, I know exactly how much space

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Regarding commit 1702 (large sector sizes)

2012-02-07 Thread Tom Ehlert
Dear PerditionC, UBYTE DiskTransferBuffer[MAX_SEC_SIZE]; wastes 3,5 KB low memory for *everybody*, not only when it's needed. regarding how much time we have spend until we had 64 byte free I think this is a bad idea I also think that these experiments should NOT be in the stable

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Regarding commit 1702 (large sector sizes)

2012-02-07 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de wrote: Dear PerditionC,    UBYTE DiskTransferBuffer[MAX_SEC_SIZE]; wastes 3,5 KB low memory for *everybody*, not only when it's needed. regarding how much time we have spend until we had 64 byte free I think this is a bad

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Regarding commit 1702 (large sector sizes)

2012-02-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jeremy, Chris, others, I am aware they are different... That is risky - even for a demonstration implementation, consistency seems important to keep code maintainable... dynamically adjusted same as MSDOS. That currently is not done. that has low priority imho, as drives with large

[Freedos-kernel] Regarding commit 1702 (large sector sizes)

2012-02-05 Thread C. Masloch
Hello devs, especially Jeremy, I reviewed your recent commit 1702 to build 2041 regarding sector sizes larger than 512. Here are my thoughts and suggestions. - First, dsk.h defines the maximum sector size (MAX_SEC_SIZE) as 2048 (as the commit comment says) while the relevant LoL entry

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Regarding commit 1702 (large sector sizes)

2012-02-05 Thread C. Masloch
- First, dsk.h defines the maximum sector size (MAX_SEC_SIZE) as 2048 (as the commit comment says) while the relevant LoL entry (maxsecsize) in kernel.asm is initialised to 4096. Yes - this is simply for testing purposes; I plan to default both to 512. I would prefer both set from the