Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 and 2.0 roadmap discuss ion

2015-01-08 Thread john s wolter
So Bertho was volunteering or did I misunderstand his message? I've come to be a fan all kinds of virtualization, VMs, appliances The android-x86.org project re-compiles Android for x86 which I run on Windows 8.1 in a VirtualBox VM. It is fast enough. Most of Android works as it does on my

Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 and 2.0 roadmap discussion

2015-01-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, others, Now the new multi-TB hard drives have 4096-byte physical sectors, at least some of them try to act as if sector size were 512 bytes. virtually ALL disks act as having 512 byte sectors, even if they have internally 4096 byte ('advanced format'). ... only recently 4kn

Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 and 2.0 roadmap discussion

2015-01-08 Thread Tom Ehlert
Now the new multi-TB hard drives have 4096-byte physical sectors, at least some of them try to act as if sector size were 512 bytes. virtually ALL disks act as having 512 byte sectors, even if they have internally 4096 byte ('advanced format'). search for '4K native' drives, and you will see