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Re: Virtual Device

At 11:33 PM +0200 on 10/18/06, Rene Trost wrote:
I'm not at the point to handle the IO process, yet. My idea is to redirect the IO to a >disk-image, that way I don't have to take care about the different formats. Simplified: >IO-Request -> VirtualDevice -> Custom Redirect IO-Routine -> disk image. The user will >end up with a normal disk-image. On the other hand, it may be more compatible to create >custom images with a 1:1 track/sector structure.

I'm not sure I made the problem clear enough. What your describing simply won't work. The IO routines are just to different between CD burning and other kinds of media. For example, different burning modes communicate different amounts of data per sector to the driver. And different read modes expect different amounts of data back. Your architecture is theoretically viable, but the details are very, very complicated, I'd suggest you get a very clear picture in your head of exactly what types of media/drives you wish to emulate and work from their.

If you want to talk about this further, why don't you email me privately and I'll see if I can illuminate things further. We're getting a bit far afield for this list.
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