On 25 Nov 98 at 11:34, Erik Maas wrote:
> >>Well, I see 10 GB. and bigger drives NOW, and far bigger ones coming
> >>(soon). -> 24 bit sector number usefull NOW (not in a year), 32 bit
> >>sector number support usefull SOON (MAYBE in a year from now, maybe
> >>even sooner).
> >24 bit useful now, not in a year? Maybe are you exagerating a little?! If
> >we can use FAT16, it will be enough for a lot of years, I think! You really
> >need to have more than 2Gb per partition?!
>
> When you start writing new routines, this 32 bit sectoraddressing is a
> simple one.
> And why not doing it this way? If you use 24 bit sectoraddressing in a FAT16
> driver,
> just leave the higher bits left to '0'...
I have only one correction to "2 Gb per partition" sentence. NOT per
partition - per whole disk at BIOS I/O level (per partition only for DOS
level)!
With best regards, Archi
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