> LARGE SECTOR DRIVES: There is also the issue of large-sectored disks > coming after the 2TB drive, if anyone plans on purchasing one of those. > by large-sectored I mean drives that have 1024, 2048, 4096 byte sectors. > Microsoft has warned of this. large-sectored drives allow you to use > the existing 32-bit-LBA MBR until the UEFI+GPT becomes established as a > standard. > what large sectors affects is disk management utilities such as fdisk > and chkdsk and defrag, and partition growing utilities that have > hard-coded 512-byte sectors into their code (like I used to).
FreeDOS's kernel also has 512 byte hardcoded as sector size for some reason. I don't know about the Int13 low-level stuff yet, but the DOS-internal buffer structure is fixed to 512 byte data and DOS's list of lists field which specifies the maximal sector size is initialized as 512 and never used by any code. Regards, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
