From: Steve Judd (sjudd_at_ffd2.com)
Date: 2004-08-26 16:21:44
Howdy Ruud,
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote:
> But having an old 1 GB disk at my disposal, 16 MB is a laugh; I haven't
> enough devicenumbers available to cover all partitions!. That's why I
> But the I still haven't any idea how to
> put a 1 GB disk into an ancient track/sector mechanism.
What the CMD HD DOS adds is a partition number. 256 partitions are
available, for a total of 4GB. There's no real need to stop at 256, of
course.
Partitions are changed using the "CP" command, e.g.
@CP6
changes to partition 6. For example, I have one parition with all my
development stuff on it, one partition with all my music stuff on it, etc.
The partition table is stored on the disk.
This system works very well, the reason being that this is a Commodore 64.
I doubt I will ever fill any of my partitions; I will never even come
close to filling up my 2GB (or whatever it is) drive. On the other hand,
a SuperCPU holds 16M, so maybe someone will eventually get around to
writing a program with that much data. I have also heard that the
GEOS/Postscript guys often run out of room on a partition. Pretty rare
otherwise.
> Question for all: with the exception of diskeditors and copiers, for what
> can these commands be used?
If there is a program with a file on the disk, this is the only to fix it.
I had this happen (bad) about a year ago, when I (stupidly) reset the
drive during validation, for example.
-Steve
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