Jack, "another week, another UIDE update" is probably just a compliment, no complaint... Regarding your most recent update: Until we support EFI (UEFI?) GPT partitioning, FreeDOS only supports 2^32 sectors for FAT partitions on int13 disks in the kernel. However, it is possible that some driver (e.g. for USB media) supports GPT itself and/or supports a filesystem (not FAT, probably also not ISO9660 nor UDF) for partitions or unpartitioned media which extend beyond 2^32 sectors.
You could decide to not cache such drives. Or you could decide to (carefully) cache only the first 2^32 sectors. Or you could support LBA48 or even 64 bit sector numbers. In my personal opinion, your choice to support 2^32 sectors is fine as long as no DOS kernel and no popular driver for DOS supports larger disks. If you need a spare bit for flags, even caching only the first 1 TB (2^31 * 512 byte) would be ok for me. Of course you could pool updates - but people can decide themselves if they personally need a specific update or if they want to wait until a few other interesting changes become available before they update. In that sense, "release early, release often" can work for everybody. Regards, Eric PS: I think it is nice to announce updates on multiple channels, e.g. BTTR forum, freedos.org and this mailing list here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
