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FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 19.02.2012, 17:39

Thx for notification. Let's see what's new:

2012 Feb 07 - Build 2041
-------- Jeremy Davis

+ Changes Jeremy
* r1637 fix out of range byte in country.asm
* r1685 add int 2f subfunc 122B and 122D from Eduardo Casino
* r1697 from Pete Batard, do not display CHS mismatch warning
during booting when forcing LBA mode option set
* r1702 improve handling for sectors not 512 bytes in size
(up to 2048 bytes, larger sizes not yet working)
* r1705 add cpu detection so memdisk args supported in 8086 build

Seems like minor changes except the support for 2048 sectors? Where is it used? I know that CDROM use 2kB sectores but it was handled by driver for a long time. I also read that some new HDDs have 4kB sectors but AFAIK they still emulate 512B sectors for system.

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Complete thread:

• FreeDOS 1.1 is released! - Rugxulo, 05.01.2012, 08:42 (Announce)
  • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - DOS386, 19.02.2012, 11:54
    • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - RayeR, 19.02.2012, 17:39
      • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - Rugxulo, 19.02.2012, 20:42
        • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - RayeR, 20.02.2012, 04:56
          • FDK build 2041, >512B sector support preparations - ecm, 20.02.2012, 23:45
            • FDK build 2041, >512B sector support preparations - RayeR, 21.02.2012, 06:09
              • FDK build 2041, >512B sector support preparations - ecm, 21.02.2012, 06:15
          • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - mbbrutman, 22.02.2012, 04:10
            • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - ecm, 22.02.2012, 22:43
              • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - mbbrutman, 23.02.2012, 05:26
        • Pete Batard Rufus(Reliable USB Formatting Utility with Src) - Arjay, 14.10.2012, 12:16
      • FDK build 2041, >512B sector support preparations - ecm, 20.02.2012, 23:37