[Coco] HDB-DOS Eprom

[Mathieu Chouinard]

> That is sector offset to the beginning of the HDBDOS/basic disks, and
> allows 94,371,840 megabytes for os9, which is about 3/4 of what can be
> handled with a cluster size of 1.  Above about 132 megs it needs a
> cluster size of 2, then 4 at just above 250 megs, moving up in powers of
> 2, so my 1Gb seagate I have as S1, is running with a cluster size of 16,
> or $10 in hexidecimal.  We run out of cluster size room at about 4Gb
> IIRC.
is there some document that explain how to do it?

> So in this case the os9 "partition" ends at $59FFF sectors and the disk0
> for hdbdos starts at $5A000.  That leaves an awful lot of unused disk
> above the 256th HDBDOS basic image, so theoretically we could have 5 or
> so more /sh like descriptors named /si, /sj, sk, /sl, /sm, each with the
> offsets pointing to a new set of 256 basic disks, all  on a 1Gb drive.
> But I've not done it except to prove to me the 2nd set works, I'm out of
> system ram as it is.
Now this is interesting, too bad I have to work this weekend, I would I have
loved try this in an emulator

Mathieu
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