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From: sarnila@tukki.jyu.fi (Pekka Sarnila)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4
Keywords: hard disk, partitions
Message-ID: <557@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 30 Mar 89 09:00:11 GMT
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Reply-To: sarnila@tukki.jyu.fi (Pekka Sarnila)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In the beta version of TOS 1.4 , I'm been told, the maximum partition
size is still 16M. Also in Cebit I was told that in the final version
it will be the same. IS THIS REALLY TRUE? I find it very difficult to
believe. Now that 30M and 44M are also available from Atari.

If I remeber right it goes like this: logic sector size is half kilo,
parameter to bios is 16 bits = 64k, this times half kilo makes 32M,
because of a bug in Alcyon C unsigned int only signed could be used,
so it really leaves 15 bits = 16M. If it is so why on earth it hasn't
been fixed?

Well what ever the reason was it souldn't bee valid since, as we are
told, the whole file system handling has been rewitten.

Please Atari fix that bug (I think 16M partition now days is a bug)!

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Pekka Sarnila,  University of Jyvaskyla Finland
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