[Coco] Multiple HDB-DOS 256 drive partitions Software Wanted

[Brett Gordon]

It's Cool that people are taking interest in Partitioning for the coco.
Obviously as the CoCoBoot guy, I'm very interested in this.  I've been
moaning and groaning about it via IRC and list for a while.  Keep in mind
we might have more that 2 types of file systems for the coco ( RBF and
RSDOS ) ,  Now that we have open source HDB-DOS and Nitros  is there a way
we can all create a real partition table ?   Treating a volume as a linked
list of filesystems only lends itself to 1 or 2 filesystem types.  Here are
my argument for a partition table:

* Arrays are slightly easier to iterate through
* multiple ( more than 2) filesystem types can be supported
* The FS types can be indicated in the table rather than grokking
filesystems.   With a linked-list,  systems including HDB, Nitros, CoCoBoot
have to do this grokking to figure out what a partition is.




On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Robert,
> Thanks for citing that pdf file.  I had forgotten about that file.  I just
> looked at it and I'm going to play around with it and see what I come up
> with.  It ought to be interesting.  :)
> Kip
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On
> Behalf Of Robert Gault
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:25 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Multiple HDB-DOS 256 drive partitions Software Wanted
>
> Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> > Robert gently send us a "RTFM" :P
> >
> > I've read some not all of them..
> >
> >
>
> Assuming that you will be happy with multiple Disk Basic partitions, refer
> to
>
> http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Support/Using%20Large%20Hard%2
> 0Drives.pdf
>
> It is unlikely that you will need multiple OS-9 partitions as the OS can
> address $FFFFFF or 16,777,215 sectors. That's over 4G at 256 bytes per
> sector. It would be much simpler to use several different OS-9 formatted
> hard drives if more room is needed.
>
> Robert
>
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Brett M. Gordon,
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