Oliger disk drive i/f
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Participants: Adam Trionfo
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1. RE: Oliger disk drive i/f
Adam Trionfo · Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:26:
Glen Goodwin, on Sent: Tue 1/08/08 at 2:06 PM, wrote:
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I will post his address this week. I know where I have
the info stashed, and I'll dig it up tonight. I promise! ;-)
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I was going to ask you the same thing... but someone else asked first.
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the entire contents of TS2068 RAM can be written
to disk quickly on an Oliger system because it does not use a
FAT.
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Strange.
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Files are simply written to the diskette one after the other.
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What if the disk has a bad block (or whatever the Oliger equivelent would be)?
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This makes some operations very slow -- such as deleting a file
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Which is one of the best reasons for a FAT. Could you imagine deleting music or videos from your hard drive without a FAT. Yikes. Still, if the disks only held a couple of files it wouldn't be so bad.
Adam
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