[Coco] Biggest OS-9/Nitros-9 HD?

Bob Devries bdevries at gil.com.au
Fri Sep 23 23:30:08 EDT 2005


Dave Kelly said:
> Your math is correct. But look at your allocation table. 1 sector = 256 
> byte x 8 bits = 2048 sectors of storage x 256 (sector size) = 624,280 hard 
> disk size possible.

But dave, on a hard disc, there are multiple sectors for the FAT.I believe 
the maximum size for the fat is 65536 bytes which works out to 65536 x 8 x 
256 = 134217728 bytes (128MB)
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