Re: TI-H: 832MB

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Subject: Re: TI-H: 832MB
From: "Matt Butch" <mjb25@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 07:12:54 PDT
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Question what is LBA and CHS??

>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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