Why not make a FAT32?
If you make a fat 16 now then in 3 years you'll have to build
a FAT32 anyway because by then I suspect that all harddisks will be 10
GB+ and a 'normal' size harddisk will be hard to come by! ;)
But seriously....
With the enormous amounts of disk space we are used to these days
it may be wise to program a fat32 to reduce clustersize.
One of the major problems may be fitting such a huge fat in MSX-memory.
Let's face it, even if you build a system which has the FAT partially
in memory, the swapping of the segments to disk will make the process
very slow. There go those 10ms accesstimes;)
And this apllies too when you are gonna use 8 partitions/driveletters
of 2 GB with fat16.
When you swap drives, you need to read in as much fat as you can for
that drive or keep on swapping. Time for MSX virtual memory?
Gerald
BTW....
As far as Soap goes....
It's on hold...
The programmer told me;)
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