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

[Mark Marlette]

At 9/23/2005 08:44 PM, you wrote:

Diego,

I have tested NitrOS-9 out with a 4GB drive, actually it was larger 
but I max'd the clustering and formatted. You don't want to verify 
the format. :)

Mark
Cloud-9


>   I've been reading the OS-9 manual, and I understand that the FAT 
> uses 3 bytes - 24 bits - to keep track of the files sectors.
>That would give 16777216 sectors, and at 256 bytes a sector, 4194304 
>Kb, or 4 Gb
>Is that the maximum size of HD partition that OS-9 can work with?
>What is the biggest HD any of you has ever used with OS-9?
>
>Also, the manual says something about the files being able to be as 
>big as the media. Did I get it right? Could OS-9 in 1985/6 work 
>(theoretically) with files over 2 GB, something that Windoze 
>machines could not do until the release of WinXP some 23 years latter?
>
>Diego
>
>
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