[Coco] HD size for NitrOS-9

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Mon Mar 24 04:16:51 EDT 2008


On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 01:19:26PM -0300, Diego Barizo wrote:
> I'm gonna settle for a 64Mb card. That should give me 32 Mb available 
> (because of sector size), seemingly more than enough, but still easy to 
> backup.

????

Both Glenside (v.2) and Cloud-9 drivers use 16-bit accesses, and can
use the full capacity of an ATA device, within limits.

Now, HDB-DOS uses 8-bit read/writes, doubling the amount of space
needed to hold the 255 "partitions", but that's probably more of a
code-space issue than anthing else.

Willard
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