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Volumes vs physical storage media | WAS "Protectmod handl" (Developers)

posted by DOS386, 26.08.2010, 09:33

> Purpose: to find out to which physical device and LBA address points the DOS drives

Indeed badly missing:

- a call revealing what device hosts a volume
- a call taking 2 volumes as input and revealing whether to use low memory (2 different disks, at least 1 is RAMDISK or SSD or so) or high memory (both on 1 hard disk) copy strategy

Windaube AFAIK doesn't have such calls either, some people (or companies) simply never learn

> I don't think it makes any recursive INT 13h calls (I'll verify this
> I just checked, and USBDRIVE does, in fact, make a recursive INT 13h call

It has this BUG (reported cca 1 year ago) that after driver uninstall the occupied "physical disks" are not freed

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Complete thread:

• Protectmode handler called from realmode - Laaca, 12.08.2010, 21:12
  • Protectmode handler called from realmode - ecm, 12.08.2010, 21:24
    • Protectmode handler called from realmode - Laaca, 13.08.2010, 01:46
      • Protectmode handler called from realmode - Japheth, 13.08.2010, 07:31
        • Protectmode handler called from realmode - bretjohn, 13.08.2010, 18:43
          • EDIT: Protectmode handler called from realmode - bretjohn, 13.08.2010, 19:25
            • Volumes vs physical storage media | WAS "Protectmod handl" - DOS386, 26.08.2010, 09:33
              • Volumes vs physical storage media | WAS "Protectmod handl" - bretjohn, 26.08.2010, 19:03
                • Volumes vs physical storage media | WAS "Protectmod handl" - DOS386, 27.08.2010, 03:25
                  • Volumes vs physical storage media | WAS "Protectmod handl" - bretjohn, 27.08.2010, 16:47
                    • Volumes vs physical storage media | WAS "Protectmod handl" - DOS386, 28.08.2010, 01:26
                      • Volumes vs physical storage media | WAS "Protectmod handl" - bretjohn, 28.08.2010, 16:35
                        • Volumes vs physical storage media | WAS "Protectmod handl" - DOS386, 06.09.2010, 20:10