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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #45 on: January 28, 2011, 01:28:58 pm »
I had a 2gig myself, but I lost it over the winter break :(
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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #46 on: January 28, 2011, 11:22:24 pm »
The number in FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 is the number of bits per entry in the file allocation table, so it's the logarithm of the maximum number of clusters.  As a result, FAT16 can't be used for partitions larger than 2 GB; whether it's worth using FAT32 on smaller partitions depends on what type of files you have, but usually FAT16 will be more efficient.

Nobody uses FAT12 anymore except on floppy disks (and I guess hardly anybody uses those anymore.)  But doesn't Windows still use FAT16 by default on small partitions?

Maybe it would be useful for somebody to write a partitioning-and/or-formatting tool for the 84+ itself, since small USB disks are getting hard to find.

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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #47 on: January 29, 2011, 09:33:28 am »
Can you give me a link to the full format of the FAT disks. I've been trying to find one, and can't seem to.

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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #48 on: January 29, 2011, 03:21:49 pm »
Wikipedia actually has a reasonably complete description of the filesystem data structures.  Is that sufficient?

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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #49 on: January 29, 2011, 03:44:51 pm »
For the record, my calculator has missing pages and runs msd8x, with a few graphical glitches, but usable all the same.

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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #50 on: January 29, 2011, 06:02:42 pm »
Wikipedia actually has a reasonably complete description of the filesystem data structures.  Is that sufficient?
Yes, but I never liked wikipedia for full information like that. Is there a utility that I can look at the structure of devices I already have?

EDIT: I know about HxD, but something for mac/linux would be preferable.
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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #51 on: January 29, 2011, 11:28:40 pm »
dd and od or hd, perhaps?  I don't know about any newfangled GUI tools.

(E.g., to show the contents of your MBR in hex: dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 | hd)
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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #52 on: January 29, 2011, 11:37:42 pm »
For the record, my calculator has missing pages and runs msd8x, with a few graphical glitches, but usable all the same.
Hmm, maybe I can look into USB8x again, then. I never got it to work, but it would be cool if I could use it.

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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #53 on: January 30, 2011, 07:30:02 pm »
For the record, my calculator has missing pages and runs msd8x, with a few graphical glitches, but usable all the same.
Hmm, maybe I can look into USB8x again, then. I never got it to work, but it would be cool if I could use it.

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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #54 on: February 02, 2011, 06:02:36 am »
today i made the calc-pc cable an a port, but now i lost my usb stick :(
as soon as i find it, i will post if it works or not with 2.55MP
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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #55 on: February 02, 2011, 09:14:37 am »
Wait, so if i go down to a lower os, it may work?
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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #56 on: February 02, 2011, 11:18:05 am »
you can try i suppose...
new os'es use more free RAM spaces, i believe (that's what the whole topic was about ;))
but i still didn't find my usb stick :(
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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #57 on: March 15, 2011, 11:02:48 pm »
Does anybody here know why msd8x doesn't support .8xk files? Does it have something do with signing? Or has it just not been programmed because it is too difficult?
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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #58 on: March 15, 2011, 11:03:24 pm »
Probably the difficulty part. Signing shouldn't be a problem AFAICT.
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Re: msd8x won't work
« Reply #59 on: March 15, 2011, 11:08:59 pm »
It will run and send single-page apps, but it doesn't have the OS validate them so they spontaneously delete after 16 runs :(
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