Op 14-8-2009 23:37, Jack schreef:
> Oh, REALLY?? I have been running the "DeepBurner" program to "shoot" my
> CD/RW masters for over two years now. It DOES simultaneous input/output
> with the disk staying-ahead of the CD/RW and always having the next block
> of data ready to be written out. It is a "Windows" program, but it runs
> on EXACTLY the same computer system that I use for DOS. Given that, and
> rather than everyone "jumping through hoops" about super-extended memory,
> maybe you should contact the "DeepBurner" people on the Internet, and ask
> if (A) they have a DOS version or (B) they might send you their sources!!
> NO reasons you must call UIDE, nor any other DOS drivers -- you can write
> your OWN simultaneous I-O scheme in DOS to copy your DVDs/BluRays, and it
> might take 100-MB of buffers maximum, damned well NOT 8.5-GB nor 50-GB!!!
>
Hello Jack,
Somehow I think you're missing the point here a bit. Your UIDE and
ramdisk together can use all memory below 4GB quite easily already.
Point is, I'd prefer UIDE and other programs, and possibly a ramdisk, to
use the memory below 4GB; and a ramdisk driver, be it the same driver or
not, being able to use/access RAM above 4GB so first 4GB stays
available for older/other programs which are limited to this amount.
Your recorder program example as claimed above would be able to pipe
original source directory tree into ISO into the recorder on the fly. I
normally use IMGBURN for recording, though ISO generation + virtual
machine is easier option to test things first, before creating a final
master on optical disk.
Let's go with the following assumptions (as valid in modern computer
sales), and see if I can demonstrate my issue.
1) User has a computer with 1 harddisk only, with 1 partition spanning
the entire harddisk, formatted as NTFS.
2) Computer has 12GB RAM (hello brand new Core I7 system with triple
memory channels)
3) Disk image can create an imagefile of the harddisk, with (compressed)
filesize just below 4GB so it fits as single file on FAT32 under DOS.
4) DVD can contain more than 4GB, so the file fits on it.
5) No ISO generation necessary as your above mentioned buffering
technique can be used.
6) Not allowed to make alterations to the disk at all. Think forensics
if you want :)
7) No USB sticks around with sufficient capacity and free space, or
speed, or access from DOS, to be used as storage space.
With lack of UDF driver for DOS ("packet writing") we'd need to have a
FAT32 storage location with at least 4GB capacity, so the file (disk
image) that we want to burn to DVD, can be stored. Didn't even mention
ISO (see assumption 5), which would double the needed filesize :)
I know of no other freely usable/distributable DOS optical disk writing
software other than CDRECORD and CDRKIT, both stuck on ASPI/SCSI (as is
your DeepBurner program I bet, using SPTI likely).
Maybe there does exist a specialised DOS program which does what you do
in Windows: source --> <pipe> --> ISO --> <pipe> --> disk (Norton Ghost
perhaps?). Maybe only Linux based software is suitable (Parted Image etc).
Still, I'd like to be able to use DOS, and record/modify optical discs
from this environment. Maybe soon enough ReactOS (www.reactos.org) will
be a light-enough Windows-replacing environment and work with your
streaming recorder program.
Thanks for the interesting discussion at the very least :)
Bernd
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