Jun-Sung Kim wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a new IDE user :) And I have two questions.
>
> 1. Assigning driver letters.
>
> Is it possible that I use only two drive letters for a IDE harddisk
> when there are more than two partitions?
>
> 2. Maximum Capacity.
>
> According to a document from Sunrise home page (IDEFAT16.TXT),
> 2GB is possible to for one parition. Is it correct?
As I say further on this message,this is correct for IDE drives with
FAT.
>
> And what is the maximum capacity of a harddisk (not a partition)
> which can be handled by IDE interface/file system.
At least on PCs it's 2047 MB (2gb) with FAT.FAT32 allows upto 64
TB...but this doesn't exist on MSXs.
Greetings,
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Jorge Vidal Wulff
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