Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-devel] newer motherboards and [U]EFI, large-sectored drives

2009-09-06 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi Eric, > not new... Floppy supported 128 to 1024 bytes, for example... Yes, > FreeDOS only supports 512 bytes at the moment. For unknown reason, > this became even more hardcoded than it was before short ago. As > far as I remember, the biggest that MS DOS supported was 4096 for > WORM, but only

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-devel] newer motherboards and [U]EFI, large-sectored drives

2009-09-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Christian, I remember that eltorito.sys tries to autodetect whether the BIOS lets you access the CD/DVD as 2048 byte per sector drive or rather as 512 bytes per sector, so the idea of different sized sectors is not new... Floppy supported 128 to 1024 bytes, for example... Yes, FreeDOS only sup