Re: TI-H: 832MB
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Re: TI-H: 832MB
>Question what is LBA and CHS??
Lets see... LBA is either Linear Block Addressing or something like that.
CHS is Cylinder Head Sector addressing...
>>From: tsaimelv@pilot.msu.edu (Mel Tsai)
>>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>Subject: Re: TI-H: 832MB
>>Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 08:41:38 GMT
>>Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>
>>
>>>We can access up to 832MB through the EII memory port. (8,589,934,592
>bytes)
>>>
>>>Since a 24 bit number can be up to 16,777,216, we can have 16,777,216
>>>sectors using LBA.
>>>
>>>I think those are correct... I just woke up so I might have pushed a
>wrong
>>>button here or there on my 92... :\
>>
>>Uhh, grant, I thought you supposedly knew a lot about hard drives by
>>now, apparently not :).
>>
>>2^24 = 16,777,216 sectors = 8,589,934,592 bytes = exactly 8 gigabytes.
>>This is why drives over 8 gigs must software CHS "tricks" to use LBA
>>past 8 gigs.
>>
>>-Mel
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>-http://www.egr.msu.edu/~tsaimelv/expander.htm
>>
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