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Richard Ashton <richard@corixia.demon.co.uk> wrote:
} Ian Wilson wrote:

>CDROMS on EIDE
>M/B's can be troublesome, they often want to be masters and have to go
>on the second channel/controller

Provided you keep them on the secondary channel, there should be few
problems.  When you start to mix them, say goodbye to your sanity.
Given sufficient funds, I would go all-SCSI, even though EIDE is cheap
and reasonably fast.

>The problem with 2GB drives is their size :)). If you run FAT ( which
>you must unless you run OS/2, NT, or an Un*x clone) the larger the
>partition, the bigger the clusters, the more space each file takes, no
>matter how small. If you did not partition it at all then I believe
>the cluster size would be 8Kbytes, this means any file less than 8 K
>will "use" 8K of disk space, and 8.5K file uses 16K.

A 2GB drive would be running, IIRC, 64k clusters.  Ouch!  As an example,
my 1GB drive came pre-formatted as a single partition.  I re-sized the
clusters to 16k, lost about 10MB (which I suppose I could use as a swap
partition), but gained 92MB, simply because of the smaller clister size.

Also, Micro$oft are rumoured to be working (or have working) a proper
FAT system which uses 512byte clusters, but it only works for Win95.

As a personal preference, I think I would wait for Windows NT v4 and run
that - a proper OS and a nice interface.  Others, of course, will
disagree with me :-)

>If you partiton down you get lots of them, partitions, that is :) but
>these can be more easily backed up ont a Jumbo or Tracker

The problem with multiply partitions is deciding where to put
everything, and finding that you have 10MB free on 5 partitions and you
can't install some software that wants 11MB...

>} Question 5:
>} Can I install my IBM 4072 Execjet printer on the Platinum Triton SE
>} and will it work OK under Windows95.

Win95 certainly has the driver, but whether it will work is all down to
Microsoft.

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