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Author:  danilop2k2 [ Sat May 12, 2012 9:17 am ]
Post subject:  image mode capacity?

hi

have a 512 trascend card,
can't use side because my computers don't have ide anymore

trying to copy 325+2D images with multiple games
-the ones that are online and come with lotharek's sio2sd-
i find myself out of "pages" around 200+ images

how big is image mode in my card?
how can i make even this collection fit?

Author:  mr-atari [ Mon May 14, 2012 3:28 am ]
Post subject:  Re: image mode capacity?

Hi,

Been away the weekend for mothersday ;-)

512Mb normally has 984 cylinders, 16H, 63S
256 cylinders are reserved for logic-partitions, so 728 cylinders for images.
16H, 63S = 1008 sectors/cylinder.
In MD-mode (1040 sectors/image) you need 2 cylinders per image = 364 images.
In SD-mode (720 sectors/image) you need 1 cylinder per image = 782 images.

Later,
Sijmen.

Author:  8-bit [ Mon May 14, 2012 10:39 am ]
Post subject:  Re: image mode capacity?

The IDE connector I am using does not have a pin 20. Is that needed for power to a Transend 512meg CF card?
I do have an external power connector, floppy type, that I could use, but I would really like to be able to power the CF card using the Atari and the Cartridge type (Build-it-youself) MyIDE.
So is it a matter of just establishing the missing pin 20 and supplying it with 5 volts?
Or would it be better to just connect 5volts from the cartridge to the external CF2IDE adapter power connector?
I may also want to try using a physical 2.5" IDE drive with the cartridge and would not want a hot pin 20 to hurt the hard drive.

Author:  mr-atari [ Tue May 15, 2012 1:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: image mode capacity?

I normally connect pin 20 to any 5 volt point on the PCB.

For 2.5"/3.25" that does not matter, since they have no pin-20 on the connector itself.

One issue with real drives, they draw a bit more current (about 500mA) dropping
the voltage of the system. This will change the color of the screen a tiny when spinning-up.

Later,
Sijmen.

Author:  danilop2k2 [ Thu May 17, 2012 9:18 am ]
Post subject:  Re: image mode capacity?

tried even on a 1gb card

image mode gets corrupted after 250+ 2d images
i think its a firmware problem

tried with last 4.7.04 update

Author:  mr-atari [ Fri May 18, 2012 2:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: image mode capacity?

Ah, yes you are correct.
That is a bug I'm working on / have fixed.
At image 256 ($0100) the calculation goes wrong.....

Can you wait for the next update?

Or do you want to beta-test :-)

Later,
Sijmen.

Author:  danilop2k2 [ Wed May 23, 2012 4:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: image mode capacity?

mr-atari wrote:
Ah, yes you are correct.
That is a bug I'm working on / have fixed.
At image 256 ($0100) the calculation goes wrong.....

Can you wait for the next update?

Or do you want to beta-test :-)

Later,
Sijmen.



also side loader menu fails to see more than 250+ files per directory in Fat 32

Author:  danilop2k2 [ Wed May 23, 2012 4:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: image mode capacity?

danilop2k2 wrote:
mr-atari wrote:
Ah, yes you are correct.
That is a bug I'm working on / have fixed.
At image 256 ($0100) the calculation goes wrong.....

Can you wait for the next update?

Or do you want to beta-test :-)

Later,
Sijmen.



i want to beta test !
my email is danilop2k2@yahoo.com

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