Re: int 0x13 utility

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:57:36 +0000, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of João Jerónimo:

> As someone pointed already, it's pretty likely that MS-DOS 6.22 does
> not sup****t LBA routines, so it'll use CHS (which implies a maximum
> of 8GB). If the SATA BIOS does not sup****t the virtual mapping I
> mentioned above in it's CHS-based routines, then you'll be even more
> limited (I think it's the case).

That is *exactly* what I've been saying - I even emailed Silicon Images
about their BIOS; they might fix it or I might have to patch it myself
to put out the right numbers. 

> Try FreeDOS, or write a wrapper that hooks int0x13 CHS routines and
> maps virtual CHS addresses to LBA. You'll still be limited to 8GB,
> though...

FreeDOS does work perfectly, it can boot off it and use the entire disk
with FAT32.
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