[cctalk] Re: ST-251 Data Recovery for Glenside Color Computer Club (GCCC)

Well, that would be "spot on", as the formatted capacity of an ST-251 was 40 Megabytes. When used with MS-DOS, prior to MS-DOS 3.31, it would be partitioned as two 20MB, or as a 32MB plus an 8MB. (V3.31 was the first version of MS-DOS to support a partition larger than 32MB) On Tue, 16 May 2023, Mike Katz wrote: > The biggest drive I remember seeing on OS/9 was 20MB or 40MB.  I > don't remember the File Allocation Table size or format. > > On 5/16/2023 7:14 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >> On Tue, 16 May 2023, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote: >>> Most likely there was some kind of driver for the CoCo that >>> converted the ST-251 into smaller logical drives for the CoCo >>> Operating system. >> >> One fellow, who used to be involved in Cocos, recalls one or more >> systems that handled it by MANY "virtual floppies" on the drive. >> >> I think that OS-9 may have had support for "big" drives. >> >> -- >> Grumpy Ol' Fred             cisin(a)xenosoft.com