> My problem is that ELTORITO creates the possibility to have a non-FAT, > but BIOS-supported drive (which in fact represents the contents of a > CD/DVD) and I see a risk that LBACACHE would try to cache it.
ELTORITO does NOT create a sector oriented device, accesible by the kernel (or LBACACHE). it can't be accessed by INT13 READ/WRITE functions and so can't be cached by LBACACHE. ELTORITO (and UDVD/OAKCDROM) provides a low level interface to the hardware that SHSUCDX/MSCDEX (and nobody else) detect and convert it through the 'network interface' into a usable DOS drive letter. as far as the kernel is interested in this the CD might as well be a remote drive on a server on the other side on the world. sector sizes are expected to be handled by the 'network' driver; in this case SHSUCDX. kernel does not and doesn't need to care about it. end of story. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
