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Offline darksun9210

Re: 4.2GB - Formatted or Unformatted?
« on: March 06, 2006, 02:07:36 PM »
also bear in mind that disk manufaturers gigabytes are 1,000,000,000 bytes, not 1,073,741,824 bytes. :-o

so your "4.3Gb" disk is only 4100.8Mb. 4.8Mb over the 4096Mb limit. :-D

4Mb isn't a big deal to loose.
just make sure your paritions add up to less than 4096Mb if you don't have any patch software or updated fastfilesystem installed.

 :-)

as regards to a multidisk scsi setup... it'll have as many disks/partitions as you like on there.

A500 Vampire2/minimegachip/lazarus/indyECS
A600 Vampire2/604n/subway/IndyECS
A1200 PiStorm32+Pi4/subway/IndyAGA
A1200 PiStorm32+Pi4/subway/IndyAGA
A1200 PiStorm32+Pi4/subway/IndyAGA
A3k C=040/CV64-3D/Xsurf100+RRoadUSB/Zoram256/acard scsi-ide-CF/IndyECS,
A4k CSMk3-060/CV64-3D/Xsurf100+RRoadUSB/Bigram256/IndyAGA, mediator+pci cards
CD32 TF360/IndyAGA
Plus an SGI O2 & consoles.
 

Offline darksun9210

Re: 4.2GB - Formatted or Unformatted?
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2006, 05:16:02 PM »
i've not heard of the 2Gb partition limit,
but i personally wouldn't have a system partition bigger than a gig - usually about 250Mb or so. as if at anytime you loose validation on your system drive, its going to take forever to re-validate a big partition.

A500 Vampire2/minimegachip/lazarus/indyECS
A600 Vampire2/604n/subway/IndyECS
A1200 PiStorm32+Pi4/subway/IndyAGA
A1200 PiStorm32+Pi4/subway/IndyAGA
A1200 PiStorm32+Pi4/subway/IndyAGA
A3k C=040/CV64-3D/Xsurf100+RRoadUSB/Zoram256/acard scsi-ide-CF/IndyECS,
A4k CSMk3-060/CV64-3D/Xsurf100+RRoadUSB/Bigram256/IndyAGA, mediator+pci cards
CD32 TF360/IndyAGA
Plus an SGI O2 & consoles.