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tomas-nestorovic / RIDE

Windows tool for low-level access to any floppy disks, and comfortable high-level access to some legacy filesystems (ZX Spectrum, MS-DOS, etc.).
https://nestorovic.hyperlink.cz/ride/html/index.html
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All DOSes: Search for empty healthy sector should be unified #46

Closed tomas-nestorovic closed 3 years ago

tomas-nestorovic commented 4 years ago

Currently, each of DOSes implements its own way of how to search for a healthy sector that is reported empty (unallocated to any file or directory). Virtually all of the DOSes use a common strategy to find an empty healthy sector - they import an artificial single-Byte file to the disk using CDos::__importFileData__ method and retrieve the sector allocated to this file via CFatPath::GetItems method. This approach should thus be made a common functionality available to all DOSes via CDos class-based method.

tomas-nestorovic commented 3 years ago

Without one and half year of no fix, this issue can be safely closed.