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What size / type hard drives does it support, driver code for controller included?

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What size / type hard drives does it support, driver code for controller included?

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(h) Any ATA/IDE hard drive will work with the Series Two. These drives must support PIO (programmed I/O) mode. Ultra DMA is not supported. As far as I know, all Ultra DMA drives also support PIO as well. CP/M in general cannot support “large” drives. For CP/M 2.2, I believe 8Mb is the max partition size (possibly 32). CP/M 3.0 can support larger drives; however there is a performance impact (slower) for larger drives. In practice, 8Mb seems like a nice compromise between size and performance. I feel that we can achieve decent performance on the Series Two with 32Mb partitions. Since CP/M supports 16 logical drives, that means that we can partition a single hard drive into many 8Mb (or 32Mb) drives. In the future, I would like to add support for mounting and dismounting logical partitions (like in UNIX.) At present, the best drives to use with the Series Two are probably around 1GB in size, as these are fairly common, low cost, and reliable. In practice, it would be unlikely that the en

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