On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 at 16:14:56, ZN wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
>On 01/08/02 at 10:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>Can the QUBIDE be used together with the Trump Card on a standard QL -
>>does anyone know for definite (Nasta??).
>
>Yes, it has to be set to operate at address C000h (i.e. ROM slot).
... but you were coming up with a gal (one of them?) to free the rom
slot (and I have advertised that for Romdisq.
Fortunately no-one has asked for it so far (8-)#
> There
>are limits - the drive map is stored in RAM, and it's size depends on the
>size of the partition(s), and the block size used to format it. With large
>drive maps you may run out of memory. For use on a TC large block sizes are
>preferred to create a smaller map. Storage of small files will, however, be
>inefficient in that case, but there is no way around that.
Well we live with 32k block sizes on PC hard disks now without even
thinking about it.
At least qubide gives one the choice.
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