From: Peter Cameron (pdwc_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 14:41:22 PST
on 2/7/03 5:02 PM, Paul Guyot at pguyot_at_kallisys.net wrote:
> I think several users have tried partitions larger than 64 MB.
> For the moment, ATA Support only lets you create up to 4 partitions.
> The system actually doesn't let me have more than 4 stores mounted
> per card unless I cook an even dirtier hack.
How much larger partitions have they been able to make? And does this
mean that most of a large drive (5GB for instance) would be just so much
waste space?
> However MP3s don't take any heap.
I didn't know that.
> So do some packages.
How are they recognized without some hook into the OS (which, if I
understand things correctly, takes heap?
> Books take little heap as well.
Yes, I knew their heap requirements were smaller.
Peter
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