I face sometimes problems when adding directory as drive A or B. Files are being truncated or changed to 0 bytes. I assume dir is max 720kb.
Is it possible to add directory as hard drive of eg. 4Gb. Or maybe extend drive to larger or same size.
Just to set expectations straight: this is an open feature request, but as far as I know, nobody is actively working on it.
As always: help would be appreciated.
Of course this will not write back to the PC file system (you have to explicitly export for that), but personally I see this as a benefit, if there’s a bug in the code and something gets badly messed up on the MSX, it can’t corrupt the files on the PC.
I am thinking practical to implement. Hard disk can also been seen as SD card and vice versa or should directory be defined as Hard disk and SD card separately in for eg catapult?
Can we implement some code from RomWBW, to access FAT 12/16/32?
What is max size of the .dsk image? I tried using 4096M with no results. Maybe it works only with fat12 images?
Of course this will not write back to the PC file system (you have to explicitly export for that), but personally I see this as a benefit, if there’s a bug in the code and something gets badly messed up on the MSX, it can’t corrupt the files on the PC.
A table:
Wch is the FAT system MSX should be working with?
FAT12: 32 MB (256 MB for 64 KB clusters)
FAT16: 2 GB (4 GB for 64 KB clusters)
FAT32: 2 TB (16 TB for 4 KB sectors)
Can those drives being partitioned depending on clusters and thus only FATx Directly) and via OpenMSX other sysfs like btrfs, ext, ntfs etc?
There is a FAT16 driver, or you can use NEXTOR for FAT16 support.
I seriously think that the processing power of MSX would not support FAT32, however, that doesn't mean it cannot be done. Maybe with a complete rewrite of Nextor? or a FAT32 driver.
Whoever thought we would be able to use flashcards and some USB devices with our humble 8-bit machine.
