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In article <1990Feb28.004225.3023@ultra.com> jimh@ultra.com (Jim Hurley) writes:
>I just upgraded to TOS 1.4 and was wondering if I can
>now have a partition size greater than 16Meg. My SUPRA
>utilities will let me make one, but complain that GEMDOS won't
>support it. Thanks in advance.
> 
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TOS 1.4 will directly support 32M partitions; Supra's formatter probably
was written long before TOS 1.4 was.  I have formatted 20 meg partitions with
Supra's formatter (because HDX 3.02 does not like something about my system,
and I strongly thing it's my DMA chip) no problems.

HDX 3.01/2 will let any Atari support reeeal big partitions.

While I'm here, can anyone tell me <again?> what the cutoff point for 512 byte
sectors is using HDX?  A friend of mine formatted his Seagate 296N with his ICD
utilities (he has an ICD HA, of course), and used HDXPREP and then HDX to
partition the drive into four 20 meg partitions.  His sector size is 1024 bytes.
Someone else said that the sector size stays at 512 bytes 'til you reach the
32M+1 region.

Mike