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Article #2031Re: SH204 Hard disk facts
From: Dave Clemans
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 16:51
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 16:51
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The ST hard disk format is that same as used on MS-DOS 2.X systems, and has its same limitations. In particular that's where 32MB size limit per disk partition comes from. The only way to make it bigger would be to increase the number of sectors per cluster, which may or may not work under GEMDOS. (And it would depend on whether or not the driver would understand logical sector numbers that didn't fit in a 16-bit word). The code to create/delete files in GEMDOS is particularly slow (probably because of seeking back and forth between the FAT and where the data is being written much more than it should). This is the reason for the recommendation that partitions have a maximum size of around 10MB. dgc
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!vrdxhq!verdix!ogcvax!sequent!mntgfx!dclemans From: dclemans@mntgfx.UUCP (Dave Clemans) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: SH204 Hard disk facts Message-ID: <391@mntgfx.mntgfx.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 12:51:35 EDT Article-I.D.: mntgfx.391 Posted: Thu Sep 25 12:51:35 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 06:37:50 EDT References: <1065@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> <12241574153.8.LYNN@PANDA> Organization: Mentor Graphics, Beaverton OR Lines: 13 Summary: info on disk size limits