[NTLK] ATA support and partitioning cards?

From: keith (keith_at_vortex.co.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 07:06:54 PDT

Okay, before I go down this road without knowing enough, is it
feasible - and sensible - to get a large-ish ATA-format memory card
and use Paul's ATA driver (paying for it, of course! :-) to format it
to more manageable chunks? Is partitioning it easy to do?

If I ended up with a handful of, say, 30-40MB 'volumes', would this
avoid the hit on the Newton's internal resources that I've read about
with multi-hundred MB ATA memory cards?

Or would I be better off by not being so ambitious and getting a
linear flash card in the 30+ MB range instead?

I'll be using this in my upgraded 2000 and in my 2100.

Thanks!

k 

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