Fairlight-CMI

Hi,

The whole OS-9 filesystem (RBF) is based on 24-bit addresses for OS-9 
sectors (256 bytes). One could implement a JKERNEL SCSI-driver 
extension (for the wavesuper) in order to "fake" multiple 4GB drives 
from one large drive >>4GB, though.
As far as I know, MFX3 supported a new filesystem ("FLFS") for 
partitions with up to 200GB.

I use a SCSI DVD-ROM drive with my MFX2 system (Rev11+). A regular 
DVD-R can hold a complete 4GB OS-9 partition. Such a configuration is 
very flexible: one system drive, one 4GB work drive, and one DVD-
drive for libraries etc.

Michael

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Jean-Bernard EMOND 
<jbemond@f...> wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> I think the 4GB limit it's FAT Microware OS-9 limit.
> how byte use in FAT adress mode, for each Inode ?
> 
> in OS-9000 (Later version of OS-9) limit is up of 4GB !
> but OS-9000 is disk formats incompatible with native OS-9.
> 
> Historically, OS-9 as far back as 1977... Very old system...
> now 4GB is very small :)
> 
> no simple to adapter OS-9 (Old) with new large FAT OS-9...
> 
> it is possible to create more "partition table" ???
> 
> KMI what do you think about ?
> 
> JB
> 
> for OS-9 see this link:
> http://home.t-online.de/home/dtr-kiel/os9max.htm
> 
> Laurent Lemaire a écrit :
> > Hi James,
> > 
> > This limitation looks like a 32bits limit to me. Working
> > around such limit is not straight forward... But someone
> > may have the solution. Is this limit still there on the Mfx3 ?
> > 
> > Regards.
> > 
> >     Laurent.
> > 
> > Quoting James Thomson <jamesthomson@m...>:
> > 
> >