If you set the device attribute word in the device driver header (bit 13) to flag a non-IBM disk (zero), you can access any disk or tape if the block device driver is written to support that. DOS will just specify the logical sector numbers it needs and does not care if this is stored in FAT format on the disk.
An ext2 driver would need to check the partitions on the disk and if it finds one or more ext formatted partitions start reading/writing there. By the way, Linux now came up with the F2FS file system for flash disks and SD-cards. Maybe that is an alternative to exFAT for FreeDOS. Regards Georg > > Hi Eduardo and Georg, > > actually BLOCK drivers are only suitable for making > FAT partitions on non-BIOS drives (e.g. USB) usable > by DOS. For other filesystems, you would use other > interfaces: CDEX / network redirector API, as used > for ISO9660 CD/DVD and for VMWare in VMSMOUNT :-) > > Regards, Eric > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
