4.2GB - Formatted or Unformatted?

[amigagr]

an other option, before you do anything with the disk, is to install nsdpatch
for 64bit scsi update and the ffs64patch
for 64bit fastfilesystem support.
these patches are usefull only on Workbench3.1

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in any case, if you want to make the first partition bootable,limit it's size to no more than 2gb

[amigagr]

Hyperspeed wrote:
I read that the older HDToolBox don't like partitions bigger than 1GB...?

i recently run the hdtoolbox from the install disk of a590, the hard disk expansion for amiga500, of course i run it on the a1200 and with sfs on the disk, but it could ''see'' up to 2gb! partitions. this hdtoolbox i think is from wb1.2.

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probably the higher barrier has to do and with the proper or not scsi.device.

[amigagr]

@Olecranon:  these days of big disks i use only 512mb for the boot partition. have in mind this: whatever patches you can apply to the system during boot or after this, at the very begining the amiga boots with the standard rom's limitations. rom's 3.1 scsi device can't ''see'' more than 4gb at first boot of amiga. the 2gb limit is something i have read here and there a lot of times, not a personal expirience. you can check here and here for sfs. read carefully before attempt anything to your drive and backup all the data just in case :-) for me sfs is safer and faster. can work with partitions up to 128gb, but always have in mind a small boot partition.
BTW: there is a new update of sfs to version 1.254

[amigagr]

@koaftder: using hdtoolbox when you define the cylinders of a partition and clicking cylinder by cylinder upwards to ''count'' 1mb or 1gb you will see that 1mb or 1gb are 1024 kb or mb

[amigagr]

i think this is a matter of both scsi device and file system limitations. the 64 nsd versions can ''see'' and work in theory with some terabytes. microsoft had similar broblems with fat, fat32 and the latest, the 128gb barrier before the sp1 of winxp. if you have a biger drive and plain xp you can use only the first 128gb until you install the sp1 update

[amigagr]

in the pc that i use at work for editing i have a lot of times  used more than 100gb for a video project. just think that 1 hour of dv video is 13gb of disk space. if the prime material is 5-10 minidv or dvcam tapes plus the rendering of the final movie plus the dvd version rendering, you end up with 200gb for just one project. some times even this is not  enough.