Date   : Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:56:15 +0100
From   : Jon Ripley <beeb@...>
Subject: Re: [Announce] BBC Hard Drives Package (for supporting emulators)

In message <20030723173046.37102f59.charlesb@...>
you wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:42:35 +0100
> Jon Ripley <beeb@...> wrote:
> 
> <CUT>
> Re: emulators
> 
> ahh ok i see, oh well hopefully this will prompt them cus then we could
> all have 80 gig hard drives (emulated) for our beebs :P unfortunately
> i'm not that experienced as a programmer to do it else I would do.

Well, not quite 80Gb. With ADFS you can have a maximum of 4 hard drives
with a total of 2Gb storage space, 512Mb is the largest that one drive
can be. Pretty good considering when this technology was available.

Of course there is nothing stopping you (aside from hard drive space :)
from having as many virtual hard drives as you need and mounting up
to four at a time as required. The bonus is that with an emulator you
can swap hard drives as easily as swapping floppies is on a real beeb.

Have fun,
Jon R.
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