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thomas · 18 April 2023, 15:27

There are very rare CF cards which report their real size using "illegal" CHS values. These can be fully used with scsi.device V40.

No, NSDPatch surely does not "fix" scsi.device. It only does what is documented, it uses either Direct-SCSI or TD64 for large harddrives, whichever is available.

I don't think we'll get any further in this discussion. NSDPatch is superfluous software because you can find a good combination of IDE driver and file system which works without it.

You can also find a combination which does not work without it, but that's just a stupid choice, not a reason to use NSDPatch. My opinion that is.

18 April 2023, 15:27	#32
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 7,020	There are very rare CF cards which report their real size using "illegal" CHS values. These can be fully used with scsi.device V40. No, NSDPatch surely does not "fix" scsi.device. It only does what is documented, it uses either Direct-SCSI or TD64 for large harddrives, whichever is available. I don't think we'll get any further in this discussion. NSDPatch is superfluous software because you can find a good combination of IDE driver and file system which works without it. You can also find a combination which does not work without it, but that's just a stupid choice, not a reason to use NSDPatch. My opinion that is.