As I understand the ATA driver, the unregistered software is limited
to 1 4M partition.
Registration allows larger and multiple partitions.
ATA itself is the tool that allows the variety.
Speed seems always to suffer the larger the 'tition (due to heap
impact, as described earlier in this thread).
On 3. May, 2007, at 6:55, Dan wrote:
> On 5/2/2007 6:01 PM, R A Parker wrote:
>> I'm not sure if someone answered any of your questions but let me
>> try.
>> On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 12:47 am giorgio razzano wrote:
>>> My problem is that I'll have partitions
>>> smaller than that (lets say 8MB ...).
>> Well, you may want to consider how it all works. The Newton and
>> ATA, that
>> is. The question is WHY? You should consider 32MB partitions as
>> average
>> working size.
> as I have had experience
> with larger Linear cards that were slower than smaller ones. He had
> already partitioned them to 32 and didn't see any improvemen
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