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

2015-01-07 Thread Bret Johnson
> 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. They can only do that if they are less than 2 TB. If bigger than that, they require GPT and don't even try to emulate 512-byte sectors. The emulation also sl

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

2015-01-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Bertho Grandpied: > Regarding the next FreeDOS 1.2 and possible later 1.x releases, > I'd like to see the kernel upgraded to supporting large sector > sizes, rather than hear fantasies about '32 bit FreeDOS' ! > As far as the 16-bitty-FreeDOS kernel is concerned, > it's been clearly stated t