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In article <831146997.7785.0@nook.demon.co.uk>
           neil@nook.demon.co.uk "Neil Trotter" writes:

| Peter Hayward <peter@cdsl.demon.co.uk> said:
|
| [snip]
|
| >   The other method (I'm not advocating it, just mentioning it for the
| >   sake of completeness) is a compressed drive, like DRVSPACE.  This
| >   eliminates all the slack wasted in at the end of clusters. I seem to
| >   to remember there is some size limitation so you would still need more
| >   than one partition - though you would get more in it:-)
|
| Are you sure about this, Peter?  This is interesting because I *believe* the
| last implementation of DRVSPACE I used (the one which came with DOS 6.2)
| used an ALU size of 8,192 bytes, I *believe* regardless of partition size.
| The Slack Space scourge was still an issue, though on a reduced scale for
| larger partitions.
|

  I was simply re-reporting the result of an earlier thread in this
  newsgroup (a few months ago) when the concensus seemed to be that
  compressed drives did not have the wasted space problem becuase they
  didn't, in reality, use clusters.  (They fake Int 0x21 0x44 ... enquiry
  type data for the sake of compatibilty).  It may well be that Micro S**t
  haven't done as good a job as other vendors.  I only mentioned DRVSPACE
  'cos most people would have heard of it.

| If what you're saying (about eliminating slack space at the end of clusters)
| is correct, then DRVSPACE must have been improved upon since my last
| misadventure with it ...
|
| Can anybody clear this up, just so we're not left wondering?
|
  I will second that request.

| Best wishes,
|
| Neil
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