neilhncc1701d@pro-cyon.UUCP (Neil Haldar) (05/14/89)
Someone on here spoke about 'home mods' to ProDOS that allowed it to
access volumes greater than 32megs... who was that? (Sorry). And how is this
done?? And... well, you got my attention... tell me more!
Thanks...
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- Mr. Spock, Star Trek IVdlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (05/16/89)
In article <8905150839.AA04530@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-sat!pro-cyon!neilhncc1701d@nosc.mil writes: > > Someone on here spoke about 'home mods' to ProDOS that allowed it to >access volumes greater than 32megs... who was that? (Sorry). And how is this >done?? And... well, you got my attention... tell me more! It isn't possible to have volumes larger than 32 megs, or files larger than 16 megs, and still have the volume be a ProDOS volume. These limitations are inherent in the volume format itself, not just in the implementation of ProDOS. The important things are: 2 bytes are used for block numbers (65536 blocks = 32 megs), and 3 bytes are used for file positions (3 bytes = 16 megs). --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.