In reply to : "Michael B. Brutman" <mbbrut...@brutman.com> Michael,
> So the bottom line is that DOS will probably work just fine > when > natively attached to storage devices, and that will work > for a long > time. "Appliance" storage devices are going to break > that if they can't > emulate 512 byte sectors. precisely > I'm not entirely sure that Linux or Windows will let you > create a 512 > byte FAT style filesystem on storage that is using larger > sectors. These OSes interrogate or test the device and will use its native (apparent) sector size. What you are suggesting won't work unless you're thinking of adding a level of filtering drivers. > If > they can do that and you want to share data with them on > your DOS system > by directly reading the storage, then it's time to start > writing some > device drivers. ;-0 But we'll have to do it the other way around, I'm afraid Czerno ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
