This is where some serious investment is going to be needed... not just paches IMHO

This change will require, AFAICS, changes to
- OS2BOOT (likely rewrite as it will now have to support both disk types)
- OS2LDR
- OS2DASD
- OS2KRNL (prossibly, but actually the number of sectors reported per disk will become lower)
- HPFS.IFS (historically always aligned the FS layout alongside the 512 byte/sector)
- Boot Manager
- OS2LVM ?
Regards,
Moby.
Daniella warned me (Roderick) about 2 or 3 years ago for this. This might effect more then just
os2dasd. It can have effect on the minifsd (os2boot), os2ldr.
We are already skimming threw DDK code and to look what the best route is to deal with this.
This might be the end for HPFS/HPFS386 file systems (maybe ?). I don't know.
But it should be possible upload the os2boot file for bootable JFS and other needed drivers.
AHCI development will be resumed in Juni/July and this hooks into that that, size of sectors
on the disc. The source code of the DANIS506.ADD driver needed for the AHCI project.
So when we come to the disc storage part this is also something to put be put on the table :-)
Roderick Klein
Mensys