Re: New CFFA Card simply incredible!

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Nov 7, 3:24 pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/07/2011 01:46 PM, David Schmidt wrote:
>
> > On 11/7/2011 1:38 PM, Chuck Morris wrote:
> >> I love mine (on a IIGS), but unless I am missing something, it seems
> >> that there is a limit to the number of images that you can put on a CF
> >> card or USB stick and see in the CDA.
>
> > That's probably true: I at least didn't test it to the failure point. Since
> > you can only have a flat (root) directory, it doesn't make sense to dump
> > everything imaginable into one pile and pick from there. It's not really
> > practical. So, unless/until a subdirectory structure becomes part of the
> > image-choosing scheme, a reasonable scheme would be to keep only your first
> > couple hundred favorite disk images on a stick at a time. ;-)
>
> ISTR that the FAT filesystem had a hard limit for number of files in the root
> directory.