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- Short: Sector size converter, with Cache.
- Author: sndev@bigfoot.com (Steven Norburn)
- Uploader: sndev@bigfoot.com (Steven Norburn)
- Version: 0.12
- Type: disk/misc
- Requires: a device to patch.
-
- This is part of range of packages designed originally for use with DVD-RAM
- drives, which has now become useful for other types of drives.
-
- About SectorCache:
- ------------------
-
- This is a CLI Shell device patch program for changing the sector size of a
- device, but it also features a cache and command converter.
-
- The minimum sector size of DVD-RAM for example is 2048 bytes, the maximum
- PFS3 sector size is 1024 bytes, so we have a problem !
-
- The SectorCache patch lets PFS3 think DVD-RAM is a 512 or 1024 bytes per
- sector device and converts the sizes accordingly. It also caches small
- reads by age and can convert 64 bit device commands into another form.
-
- It doesn't just work with PFS and DVD-RAM, it can work with any track disk
- type device or any filesystem.
-
- It can also be used to mount for example a 512 bytes per sector partition,
- which has been block copied to device with a larger sector size (maybe CD-R
- or CD-RW), the FileSystem will still see 512 byte sectors.
-