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I made my own DOS implementation (Announce)

posted by marcov, 09.12.2023, 11:29

> Some medias, for example optical disks, use larger sectors that cannot be
> emulated as smaller 512 byte sectors. Optical disks usually use sector size
> of 2 kB. Also floppies can have different sector sizes, and everything from
> 128 bytes to 1 kilobyte is commonly used. Floppies are always soft sectored
> and BIOS cannot do logical block addressing with them.

(totally irrelevant hardware detail:
Some of those media (like many SCSI early magnetoc-opticals and cdrom drives) could be jumpered to report 512 byte sector size for booting purposes)

 

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