Date   : Mon, 04 May 2009 01:22:10 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Biggest Econet Fileserver Yet??

Rob wrote:
> Alternatively, it would seem that you can run Level3 FS on a beeb with
> almost any backend storage medium, if the recent CF card examples have
> shown.  Just needs a modified ADFS..  So just write a patch that
> refers device accesses across a serial link to the machine of your
 
To test HADFS access to huge devices I wrote a device driver that
send sector accesses over the serial port to access a 16M image
file at the other end. Useful to reveal some odd little boundary
condition errors, such as extending a file past the maximum
possible size - ended up with a zero-byte file!
 
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