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From: zessel@incas.UUCP (Holger Zessel AG Nehmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <1420@incas.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 16:31:16 GMT
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Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
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USERQ0QM@UALTAMTS.BITNET (Michael Kwan) writes:

>Subject: Fatspeed help
...
>Well 32 meg partitions can be done... and what more is GEMDOS will support
>it as I have tried it with the old TOS and Mega TOS 1.2....

GEMDOS does not support 32MB partitions because of a missing cast in one
of the crucial routines (cast int -> long). I don't know it exactly, but I
think it was casting a sector number, therefore you can't address sectors
above 16384(?). You may get the sector modulo 16384. Try it and then tell
me. You just need a sector editor to see it clearly.
I will look it up once more in a book, but I think even blitter-tos isn't
able of supporting 32MB partitions. May be Allan Pratt can say something
about this.

>The Supra h/d utilities will allow you to format up a hard drive with
>partition sizes up to 32 megs (maybe even more, i havent tried)....

It's not of any interest whether Supra h/d utilities can format such
partitions (see above).

>What I need is for the author or someone to Rewrite FATSPEED so that it
>will address 32 meg partitions, thereby eliminating the slow-down
>problem...

You can reach the author via ...!uunet!mcvax!unido!uklirb!incas!kuebler.

	Holger
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Holger Zessel, uucp: ...!uunet!mcvax!unido!uklirb!incas!zessel
Fachbereich Informatik, SFB124-D1
Universitaet Kaiserslautern, FRG