Re: MFM Harddisc size

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From: R Voisey
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:56

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In article <1992Nov16.103443.42555@urz.unibas.ch> gaspar@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>As far as I can remember, the biggest harddisc size you could use with a
>Archimedes 410/1 was around 50 Meg. under RISC OS 2.

You can use most drives up to around 80Megs quite easily, though for drives
bigger than 50Megs you have to swap a link (to change sector size I think).

Cheers

Bob
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