In response to : "Bret Johnson" Subj : MSDOS - increasing max sector size
... > Likewise, it will "ignore" disks with sector sizes larger > than what DOS says it can handle (this particular detail is > part of the easily accessible DOS "List of Lists"). In > the source code for USBDRIVE (starting at line 289 in the > latest official release of USBDRIVE.A36), I have a comment > that shows you how you can modify MS-DOS and IBM-DOS to > handle sector sizes larger than 512 bytes. MSDOS technicalities may be slightly off-topic here :=), anyway... According to Rudolf Loew, increasing maximum sector size in LoL of an unpatched MSDOS will work up to 2048 byte sectors, not 4096 :( I have not verified it for a fact. (Incidentally R. Loew *sells* patches that bring the limit up to 32 kbytes in MSDOS 7.10, claims the author). In your own writing Bret, I think you say you did /not/ try 4k sectors. Too bad! -- Czerno ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
