Seems that the standard 512 bytes/sector of harddisks will be replaced soon, by disks that use 4096 bytes/sector. The first wave of the new disks will support software emulation (by the drives firmware?) but thereafter, old operating systems, such as XP (and I guess OS/2) will be unable to use the new disks.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8557144.stm
So, within a few years - and starting as early as 2011 - you will be unable to use eCS on new hardware.
Looks like if there ever was a time for a rewrite of OS2DASD.DMD (and I guess a patch for os2krnl would also probably be needed, if only to overcome the 16-bit sector count limitation) it is now.
Seems like eCS needs some heavy investment...
Regards,
Moby
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8557144.stm
So, within a few years - and starting as early as 2011 - you will be unable to use eCS on new hardware.
Looks like if there ever was a time for a rewrite of OS2DASD.DMD (and I guess a patch for os2krnl would also probably be needed, if only to overcome the 16-bit sector count limitation) it is now.
Seems like eCS needs some heavy investment...
Regards,
Moby