Date   : Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:32:14
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: [BeebSoc] Re: Amstrad emailer / DataCentre

Mick wrote:
> What size disc are you using? Is there a limit with HDinit? I won't ask

There's no limit to HDInit, but ADFS limits devices to 512M as it
uses a 29-bit sector address. IDE ADFS assigns two devices per
drive and uses half the 16-bit sectors, so a 2G IDE device is seen
by ADFS as two 512M devices.

I've currently got a 1600M drive plugged into my Master, seen by
ADFS as a 800M device giving a 512M drive and a 288M drive, I also
have four 16M HADFS partitions on it.

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