From: Douglas Augustyn (six5535_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jun 20 2004 - 14:00:22 PDT
Actually I don't beleive there is a storage limit, maybe Paul can shed
some light on this. I've been using my Newton with an ATA 1GB IBM
mircodrive for about 3 months now, the only draw-back is speed of the
drive.
As for the USB/FireWire, this has been discussed on the list on
several occassions, and the general concensus tends to be "Why? You
have ethernet." I don't disagree, with the speed portion of that. What
I would really like is an NFS client for the Newton, that way I could
connect it to my File-Server and just run programs from that....
Yes I'm aware of dynamically generated directory lists pushed to a
web-interface, viewable via a web-browser, but I'm talking about an
NFS client that works similarly to Paul's ATA drivers. That and an SSH
client........
Heaven.
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:43:48 -0500, Rick Ludwig <bensisko_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
> Technically, NOTHING is impossible, just highly improbable. =)
> Philosophy aside, I believe that it would require a different driver
> (though could probably use some of the same principles as Paul's
> driver). The difficulty lies more in that the operating system won't
> recognize partitions larger than X amount (I believe the limit is
> 128MB, but I could be wrong...) and would take forever to index such a
> drive.
>
> Wouldn't that be something though? "Yep, my Newt server is connected to
> a 500GB firewire drive!"
>
> As for other USB devices, that would need a different driver for each
> device (I think).
>
> So, basically, I don't think it would happen without a rewrite of the
> OS.
> Somebody please correct any information that is wrong.
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