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

2012-02-07 Thread Bertho Grandpied

  test kernel supporting 4KB sectors, note it limits
 buffers to 2 to avoid memory corruption on boot.  

 Thanks for testing,

By an extraordinary coincidence - I am not making this up ! I received mail 
from PLoP's developer today, a short time after I had posted the following note 
to this list :

 A PLoP boot diskette would've  been ideal for this, EXCEPT... PLoP does  not 
 support other than 512 byte sectors on USB hard disks, at the moment. 

Strike that out !
The great news is a new version of PLoP is available for download from 
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmngrusblog.html
now *including /experimental/ support for 4K sectors ! *

N.B. Be warned the author writes he doesn't think it works well or has a 
future. Caveat emptor, then. 

Also of note, PLoP's license has changed it is now free for use including 
commercial. Donations will be accepted still? Please watch what Elmar had to 
say about the change (at the above URL).


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

2012-02-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-2-2012 15:05, Bertho Grandpied schreef:

 Also of note, PLoP's license has changed it is now free for use including 
 commercial. Donations will be accepted still? Please watch what Elmar had to 
 say about the change (at the above URL).

The donation button is quite well hidden, and seems restricted to Paypal 
only. Vendors like ShareIt(.com) seem to work pretty well if he wants to 
sell stuff, it even offered the iDeal payment system that's common in 
the Netherlands (we're not a creditcard culture, sorry).

I tend to pay for low-cost quality software if no equal free solution 
exists. Windows and VMware Workstation have been my most expensive 
purchases, followed by some collector editions of various games.


Bernd

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

2012-02-07 Thread Bertho Grandpied
In reply to: Bernd Blaauw bblaauw@ho...

Op 7-2-2012 15:05, Bertho Grandpied schreef:
 Also of note, PLoP's license has changed it is now free for use  including 
 commercial. Donations will be accepted still?.

The question mark after the word still was un,intended (a typo). Sorry if it 
clouded the meaning of my message. I wished to draw attention on the fact that 
donations from happy users, companies as well as individuals are still accepted.

 The donation button is quite well hidden, and seems restricted to Paypal 
only. Vendors like ShareIt(.com) seem to work pretty well if he wants to 
sell stuff, it even offered the iDeal payment system that's common in 
the Netherlands (we're not a creditcard culture, sorry).

Neither here. 'I never owned a card) 

 I tend to pay for low-cost quality software if no equal free solution 
exists. Windows and VMware Workstation have been my most expensive 
purchases, followed by some collector editions of various games.

I would gladly donate for PLoP, weren't I deprived of any salary, benefit or 
whatever income. 

In any event I'm going to try Elmar's experimental build and shall report the 
results.

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