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

posted by RayeR , CZ, 20.02.2012, 04:56

> You must've missed the long discussion on the FD mailing lists. One guy

Yes, I'm not able to read everything everywhere. I'm not familiar with DOS internals so it was going out of my scope...

> ("Czerno"? aka "Grandpied"?) wanted to test on his 4 kb sector USB hard

Czerno, hmm, I know this name, I remember that I was mailing with him or his brother? but can't remember about what, probably some low level prog...

> Basically, according to the dude, he says the hard drive industry will
> basically phase out 512-byte sectors after 2015 (?) or such for various
> political and technical reasons. So he's saying it may be wise to plan for

That's a bad new. I think that a lot of older programs till now have hardcoded sector size to 512B. As this rule was not broken when reaching several capacity limitis like LBA28 I expect that it will not be changed in near future. There will be fallback option for 512B sectors that will work slower but better than nothing. But if FD wants to be ready why messing with 2kB sectors and not 4kB? I think that's big difference between 512B and something else but not much between 2k and 4k...

> the future. (Though I think we've got bigger problems with UEFI, but
> anyways ....)

Yes, when UEFI drops BIOS compatability module we get f*cked. And how long will intel keep realmode and x86 instructions?

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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