Date   : Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:01:01
From   : heyrick.beebsoc@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: [BeebSoc] Re: Amstrad emailer / DataCentre

On 17/08/2011 00:56, Mick wrote:

> thanks to JGH, Michael Firth and Mark Haysman. Has anyone tried an IDE
> to SATA converter? If that worked, that really would be great for the
> future for IDE drives will surely become obsolete sooner rather than later.

Sad reality. I recall back circa 2001 going into a local PC World trying 
to find a "smallish" (<=2Gb) drive for my RiscPC because four half Gb 
partitions were enough, anything else would be wasted space.

...this, or course, being the time the dickhead behind the counter (the 
fairly new Guildford shop, yes, I'll name it) said that if I needed an 
extra IDE port for my *Amiga*, I could fit a Soundblaster card!

[there are three things wrong with that statement, can you find them?]

Obviously I have a rather dim view of the dim PC World employees...


> Oh, and is the maximum size of a HADFS drive 16MB?

"Small disks use 16-bit sector addresses, &000000 to &00FFFF, allowing a 
maximum disk size of 16M. Large Disks use 24-bit sector addresses, 
&000000 to &FFFFFF, allowing a maximum disk size of 4G."

It's in the docs - http://mdfs.net/Software/HADFS/ under HADFSMan



If JGH replies, I would be interested to know... the GoMMC instructions say:
"To install a blank HADFS filesystem on the GoMMC disk, use, for example:
   *HADFS
   *INSTALL M $ <diskname> D16383K "
That 16383 is 16Mb. Is this a limitation for GoMMC, or can I use any 
arbitrary value?


Best wishes,

Rick.