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FDK build 2041, >512B sector support preparations (Announce)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 20.02.2012, 23:45

> 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...

Here's something from another mail exchange from the Freedos-kernel list, the earlier inquiry is from my first mail there, the answers are from Jeremy's reply:

> > > - Fourth, apart from the other points, I fail to see why you should not be
> > > able to simply increase MAX_SEC_SIZE to 8192. 4096 is definitely in need
> > > as evidenced by the list's requests for precisely that size.
> >
> > agreed, though currently any value > 3KB causes memory corruption if
> > too many buffers are specified (I have successfully gotten 4KB sectors
> > to finish booting by changing buffers=2).
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I currently have tracked down part of my issue to allocation problems
> > if buffers is too large, but still working on relearning the init time
> > segment relocations and order to determine a proper fix for buffer
> > allocations. It would help if printf worked correctly in all the init
> > code...

As I commented on the list, this seems like a problem specific to HLL kernel development.

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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