Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/06/23:24:54
On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 1997 05:52:05 +0000 "Ian 'DrDebug' Day"
> >>> Now, as long as the driver code is, say, under 1 meg than most
> >>A MEG Driver! Are you nuts?
> >JESUS! If he dares submit a 1meg driver, I'll personally flail him
I'll set up a mailbot to flame him every hour on the hour. ;)
> probably be 128k.
No bigger, I'd say occupy no more than one single track. (more or less
would depend on the drive, mine's 63 sectors per track.)
> sugestion: Storing the access routines at the beginning of the partition,
> loading them in the first time a partition is accessed, after no accesses
> for a while, dumping them from memory. AFAIS, this would solve most
> compatability problems - emulating a FAT drive _should_ be child's play
> like this (though I don't know for _sure_ - that's why I asked for
> comments in the original post.)
And every time the driver dies, you access the drive, and smack yourself
as the lag of the software, discovering a gravestone instead of a driver,
resurrects the driver before accessing the drive. So you boost the life
of the driver, which then consumes more resources waiting to die again.
Good idea.
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