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QuestionRAM image of DVD? Pin
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kalberts9-Apr-18 2:30
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OK, so I have a DVD-ROM from which I can create an image file, aka "ISO file", residing on my harddisk / flash disk. This image file I can mount as RAMdisk so that I can access the files on that DVD-ROM as if it was a physical NTFS or FAT file system.

The text you quote states that the ISO file may be an image of a hard drive (with an NTFS or FAT file system), or a CD-ROM (with an ISO 9660 file system or derivatives) or floppy (with a FAT file system). Although the file system within that image file reside in RAM structures, read in from a single file created from a harddisk, CD-ROM or floppy, it will appear to file system requests as if it was a disk with an NTFS, ISO 9660 or FAT file system, with directories and format restrictions etc.

I see no indication whatsoever in the description that it allows direct access to physical sectors, or that it support device control for emulating physical drives. If it did, I am quite sure that it would be seen in the documentation.

Maybe ImDisk - in the good old "if it doesn't do what you want, modify it yourself" Open Source style - can be modified to appear as a physical CD/DVD drive with no implied file system structure, but providing a raw access to the sectors, and reacting sensible to all control signals that might be sent to a physical CD/DVD drive. If my task were to write drivers, I could probably do that. I did write a few driver in the DOS days; I never did for Windows.

If you have tried using ImDisk yourself, using some DVD/CD software accessing the RAM image as a physical drive - e.g. trying to burn files to the RAM disk as a CD-RW disk, ejecting the disk, responding to drive capabilites etc. - then you know better than I do. But then you probably would not refer to a description of functionality that is not what I am after.
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QuestionIs android or windows tablet any good for occasional coding? Pin
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