New follow-up ! In response to : "Bret Johnson" Subj : MSDOS - increasing max sector size
quoting myself (sorry!) : > According to Rudolf Loew, increasing maximum sector size in LoL of an > unpatched MSDOS will work up to 2048 byte sectors, not 4096 :( I have > not verified it for a fact. Wow! Never believe someone who's keen on selling something to you : ... Just done a quickie test using a MS-DOS 6.22 boot floppy (with MSDOS.SYS modified accordingly) : it DOES support 4k-byte buffers, contrary to R. Loew's assertion. Both the low work buffer and HMA buffers were 4096 bytes ! DOS seemed to work as usual... I'll have to test in depth for hidden bugs, also must test MS-DOS 7.1 for this (no time now). Shall report to this list - though of course not /directly/ relevant for FreeDOS. > (Incidentally R. Loew *sells* patches that bring the limit up to 32 kbytes in > MSDOS 7.10, claims the author). -- 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
