[Coco] Glenside IDE problem

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Heh... Depends on whether you want full verification or not. Actual format is just setting allocations tables and the root directory. The verify pass is the part that takes a long time, and isn't that necessary with modern drives (which lock bad sectors out on their own).

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> On Dec 10, 2014, at 7:48 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> BTW,,,, how many "days" will it take this 4g to format?
> LMAO
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> Bill Pierce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, Dec 10, 2014 8:44 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Glenside IDE problem
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> I presume the new one is similar to my original driver. OS-9 can handle 128 MB 
> max if you use a cluster size of 1 sector (256 bytes/sector). If you increase 
> the cluster size, you can get up to 4 GB (although, some software was hardcoded 
> for 1 sector clusters, so you need to be careful about what utilities you run). 
> If you add partitions to the mix, you can make several of up to 4 GB each (I 
> tested mine with 5 descriptors of 4GB each on a 10 GB Seagate drive when I wrote 
> the original driver). The idea of using offsets (to point to the start of each 
> partition) was taken from Bruce Isted’s driver from back in the Eliminator days.
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> L. Curtis Boyle
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>>> On Dec 10, 2014, at 7:35 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> wrote:
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>> From what I read, it's 4g at a time... per partition. It's all the tables can
> hold, but a separate table for each partition.... I may be wrong... but that's 
> the way the spec for the ide explained it. You eventually run out of room for 
> tables, but this is an experiment, so who cares. I'll just do it again until I 
> find something I like.
>> Besides... my Coco needed the exorcise, it was taking on a little weight while
> Vcc has been staying slim and trim.... :)
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>> 
>> Bill Pierce
>> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Ladd <dladd at realmspire.com>
>> To: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>; CoCoList for Color Computer
> Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Wed, Dec 10, 2014 8:27 pm
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Glenside IDE problem
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>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco
>> <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> David, it's the max that OS9 will do.... Why? because I don't see formating
>> 128meg and wasting 39.8 gig :-)
>>> I'll eventually have 5 of these on this drive (not including RSDOS
>> partitions).
>>> Why? this is my revenge for all those "Disk Full" errors all through the
> years 
>> :-)
>> 
>> I thought the max that the CoCo could access total period was 4GByte
>> with the way the addressing of the LSN was?  That is if I remember
>> right.  Cause I had thought about buying a 8GB CF card, but saw that
>> you couldn't access anything past the 4GByte boundary.  Please correct
>> me if I am wrong on this.
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