Re: [Freedos-user] writing a loadable block driver for 4k-sector drive (Questions)

2012-02-21 Thread Bret Johnson
> Unless of course DOS refuses to use (old?) drivers which do not > advertise these functions. Someone knows ? I find that a minimalistic approach almost always leads to problems and compatibility issues. Even if you think a function/feature/API may not be needed, it's still better to put it in

Re: [Freedos-user] writing a loadable block driver for 4k-sector drive (Questions)

2012-02-21 Thread Bertho Grandpied
Hi, FreeDOS-devel ! Upon C. Masloch's harsh request\\kind invitation, I'm joining Freedos-devel now and shall continue this question here that started in Freedos-user. Apologies to anybody this change of venue may inconvenience. -- On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:15

Re: [Freedos-user] writing a loadable block driver for 4k-sector drive (Questions)

2012-02-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Chris, Bertho, >> Dear List... I'm calling back with respect to the 4k-sector USB disk >> drive. I'm considering writing a loadable DOS 'block' driver for it, as >> Eric Auer suggested. > > This doesn't belong on Freedos-user then. Maybe Czerno / Bertho is not on freedos-devel? Or maybe

Re: [Freedos-user] writing a loadable block driver for 4k-sector drive (Questions)

2012-02-20 Thread C. Masloch
> Dear List... I'm calling back with respect to the 4k-sector USB disk > drive. I'm considering writing a loadable DOS 'block' driver for it, as > Eric Auer suggested. This doesn't belong on Freedos-user then. > I would like to take the simplest approach possible first, even at the > expens

Re: [Freedos-user] writing a loadable block driver for 4k-sector drive (Questions)

2012-02-20 Thread BretJ
Bertho Grandpied wrote: > Therefore my first interrogation is, what set of device header attributes > - and associated functions, including IOCTL codes - must be present /at a > minimum/ for letting DOS access the disk properly ? > > - For a tentative and probably naive self answer, could I get