7 Dec
2006
7 Dec
'06
11:17 a.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Thursday 07 December 2006 07:08, Jules Richardson
wrote:
Right now I am trying to build OS/8 ( for the SBC6120 PDP/8 clone )
and I have a whole 2 meg of file space per platter -- up to 8 platters
for the drive. I am quite sure 500 meg will work fine for most classic
computer systems.
(I've often wondered if I can do this with my
digital camera, and the
camera will automagically know how much storage it has - but I presume
that because the camera uses a FAT filesystem it'll get upset around
the 500MB mark and probably not recognise anything beyond that)
FAT16 works fine up to 2GB, and you can buy 4GB and larger flash memory
for cameras... It's possible that your camera will do FAT32 just fine,
and work with larger than 2GB filesystems.
500MB had to do with a cylinder/head/sector number limitation when you
combined the maximums you could do with IDE and the limits imposed by
BIOS calls. Pat