Re: [NTLK] Reading PC format... a theory...

From: Jeff Sheldon (jeff_at_jurai.net)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 20:24:49 PDT


On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 10:12:19PM +0200, Doug Augustyn wrote:
> Please note that this will only work if both cards are of the same
> capacity, if you try it with two different sized cards and it works,
> please tell me.

You can copy data from, say, a 16Mb card to a 32Mb card, but the data
footprint will still be identified as 16Mb. If you hexdump the dd'ed
image of a freshly NewtOS formatted card after trying out various
partition schemes, you'll be able to get an extremely rough idea of how
the partitioning is handled by way of Paul Guyot's ATA driver.

-Jeff

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