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

posted by RayeR , CZ, 21.02.2012, 06:09

> 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:

> > > 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

Yes I can understand that if someone set BUFFERS=40 and sectors increased 8x in size then it will simply overflow the segment. But it shouldn't be so hard to add some limiter that will decide max. safe buffer count according to used sector size...

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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