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I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives
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Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives
#132Not anymore!
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Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives
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Is this true? This feels hard to imagine that computers would load the entire diskette into memory. Apparently the Atari ST had up to 4MB of RAM. I can imagine many programs doing this though.
That's right I owned an Atari STFM with 4MB of RAM. As another example You could easily make RAM disks via a desktop menu, to facilitate the common setup of a single built in floppy drive. So you could copy files off into RAM via the GEM desktop GUI (literally drag and drop) and then put another disk in etc. Random aside: I accidentally found that this machine would transmit audio over FM radio for a short but very u…
RAM disks were surprisingly common on the Amiga (and apparently the high end Ataris as well).
Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives
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I managed to grab a (hopefully) uncorrupted version somehow. I'm putting it somewhere other than imgur so they don't recompress the image. MD5 d30fcc384a8e2de4fab3056bde42b00b. [EDIT: Removed dead link, use archive.org instead] > I'd be curious to know what failure mode(s) conjured the 0xf6's into existence. Today's fun fact: The MS-DOS `format` command fills the disk with 0xf6, not 0x00. Though this is linux running…
> Today's fun fact: The MS-DOS `format` command fills the disk with 0xf6, not 0x00. Another fun fact: That character is ö under Windows-1252, the codepage in use by Windows since about Windows 2.0, and some late MS-DOS.
Wow that explains the öööööööö I remember seeing back in the day when I first ever downloaded a hex editor and opened a drive I had raw.
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I think thumb drives get up to several TB this days
That sounded a bit crazy to me, so I checked. I don’t think those are actually several TB. They’re fakes that are advertised as having several TB.
Samsung is a reputable brand that makes 256 GB and 512 GB SD cards (EVO Plus) - I have good experience with using it in Raspberry Pi. And "thumb drives" - USB sticks absolutely go into TBs - I'm using a 2 TB one, and I've seen colleagues use bigger. And you can put a modern M.2 NVMe SSD into USB-C casing and it's half the size of an old portable SSD...
Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this true? This feels hard to imagine that computers would load the entire diskette into memory. Apparently the Atari ST had up to 4MB of RAM. I can imagine many programs doing this though.
That's right I owned an Atari STFM with 4MB of RAM. As another example You could easily make RAM disks via a desktop menu, to facilitate the common setup of a single built in floppy drive. So you could copy files off into RAM via the GEM desktop GUI (literally drag and drop) and then put another disk in etc. Random aside: I accidentally found that this machine would transmit audio over FM radio for a short but very u…
That’s really interesting, a quick search provided nothing about FM transmission capabilities.
The ”FM” officially stands for Floppy & (RF) Modulator, but that’s some coincidence that the audio chip emits frequency modulated radio waves at a listenable frequency.
Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives
#138See also: his video about RAIDs of floppy drives ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hc52_PWeU8 ).
Were the "power my car" and "shingle my roof" bits funny? Is this the level of YT videos to get likes?
Yeah those two parts, and those forced laughs came out a bit sour to me too, but it was entertaining watch nonetheless.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Today's fun fact: The MS-DOS `format` command fills the disk with 0xf6, not 0x00. Another fun fact: That character is ö under Windows-1252, the codepage in use by Windows since about Windows 2.0, and some late MS-DOS.
Wow that explains the öööööööö I remember seeing back in the day when I first ever downloaded a hex editor and opened a drive I had raw.
Funny co-incidence, in the Finnish language when you don't know what to say, you can say "Ööh". Data not found.
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Yup, even old computers that booted off floppy drives like the Atari ST and Amiga would often just load the entire data and program into memory, since their memory size was usually larger than the floppy disk. Same for the games, a lot of the loading at the beginning was to do with simply loading the entire disk into memory... basically system memory size vs block device size was the opposite way around of today... t…
If we take any portable media as the comparison, the largest I know of is 50GB for a blueray disk, that’s still something you can ‘almost’ load into 32gb of memory (if your OS and Teams app didn’t take 16gb of course).
if you take a dvd (dvd5 or dvd9 either way) on a linux machine with ~16GB of memory, and you read the entire disk once - say dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/null - the entire thing will be in memory. You can then use whatever tools you want as if you had the disk in memory, and it will never touch the physical device again.
If i hadn't seen it myself i would have wondered why it wasn't already possible already.