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- > +On 15-Apr-96 05:12:44 Dale Currie
- > +<dalec@zorro.amitrix.com>
- > +wrote in "comp.sys.amiga.hardware"
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- > In article <1658.6677T638T2771@iig.com.au> (Mark P Allen) writes:
- >>
- >> On 12-Apr-96 14:06:32, Dale Currie wrote:
- >>
- >> [ masks and maxtranfer values ]
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- > Yes, on looking at some of the HDPrep scripts on the Install disk later, I
- > noticed that they also use this value. It seems strange, since the
- > partition limit is 2GB for FFS that they would use a 4GB value, but as
- > long as it doesn't cause a problem.... I can see why you might use that
- > for the VLAB with a 4GB partition, but then doesn't it use it's own
- > filesystem?
- >
- >> Someone told me that the "c", "e" and "f" symbols represented byte, word
- >> or long offsets (I'm getting way out of my depth here though) according
- >> to the host system (eg., 16 or 32-bit etc). (?)
- >
- > Yes, it would be interesting to see some test numbers on large newer
- > drives to see if there is a difference at higher speed transfers.
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- The Amiga allocates memory in 8 byte quantums(wording?) AFAIK.
- That would mean just that the transfer size is masked...
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- <sb> NativeDevUpdateKit3.1/Include.I/exec/memory.i
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- *----- Current alignment rules for memory blocks (may increase) -----
- MEM_BLOCKSIZE EQU 8
- MEM_BLOCKMASK EQU (MEM_BLOCKSIZE-1)
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- <sb> end of excerpt
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- What do you think?
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- Kind regards/Mvh
- /Hannu E.K. Nevalainen, Amiga user since '85. /*1996-04-15@23:20CET*/
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- <sb> rexx:random(64 tags) -> "PowerAmiga_08"
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