[Simh] RD53 image size

Seth Morabito lists+simh at loomcom.com
Fri May 8 15:08:48 EDT 2015


* On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 12:45:33PM -0400, Bob Supnik <bob at supnik.org> wrote:
> With your assumptions. The RD53 has 138672 logical blocks. 138672 *
> 512 = 71,000,064. This is less than the actual physical capacity
> because the controller reserves some amount of space for bad block
> tables and replacement blocks. See the attached document, chapter 3,
> for details.

Aha! I am enlightened. Thank you for the explanation.

-Seth


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