Reply to Ralf A. Quint (2012-05-21 00:45)
>Bertho Grandpied wrote:
>>Raises the question of what a Ramdisk should do in order to
>>"properly" identify itself to smartdrv... impersonate MS-RAMDRIVE, maybe ;=)
> For starters, use a media descriptor byte value of 0xFA in the BPB...
This may be a good recommendation to make to someone who would write yet
another ram drive for DOS systems. However an 'FA' media byte is *not* how
MS-Sartdrive, aka Wincache, aka Bambino... would tell a ramdrive from a hard
disk partition.
Misc notes: - 1. MS-Ramdrive sets its media = F8
2 : contrary to popular belief, a media descriptor = FA *was* used by
(some obscure) *real disk gear* known to (MS-)DOS.
>>I suspect a mix of bad faith and lazy coding on behalf of MS, but -
>>whose "fault" ever it may be, the problem - once recognised! - was
>>easily worked around by explicitly excluding the RD on smartdrive's
>>command line.
>yeah, that good old "Microsoft bashing without hard facts" trick,
>never gets old... :-(
A great classic indeed ;=)
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