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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: monami on April 27, 2008, 04:34:59 PM
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i guess the old thread is a bit confusing...
i have a 6.4 gb drive. i have os 3.9 and idefix. simple. what limits do i have on this? and how do i over come limits? are there any recommended partition sizes or things to avoid. :-?
i am not going to use os 3.1 but may use os 3.5 some time.
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Boot partition within the first 2GB IIRC. Other than that, no restrictions.
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moto
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os3.9 can work ok with this disk. just make the first boot partition less than 2gb and you will be ok.
better than this, use sfs (http://strohmayer.org/sfs/files/SFS_1.279_68k.lha) and not ffs.
if you don't have an ide adapter like idefix express and the like, you don't need idefix software at all.
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what about the 4gb limit. is this a problem? i was assuming the 4gb limit was a problem seeing a partition on a drive past 4gb as that what happened to me. or is it a patition that is over 4gb in size? is it ok to long format it? i did and it seemed fine.
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monami wrote:
what about the 4gb limit. is this a problem? i was assuming the 4gb limit was a problem seeing a partition on a drive past 4gb as that what happened to me. or is it a patition that is over 4gb in size? is it ok to long format it? i did and it seemed fine.
OS3.9 patches scsi.device and has an updated FastFileSystem which remove the 4GB limit. You can safely use the whole drive as long as you don't subsequently write to it under OS <3.5, which would be using an old unpatched scsi.device which is not safe for >4GB partitions.
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moto
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that would me happy. does anything change on a drive over 8gb? thanks so far. :-)
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Nope. IIRC you can use drives up to 128GB.
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moto
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cool. but what about the quick format option? (i'm off to play on it... :-D)
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Quick format works fine!
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moto
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no i was reading something and thomas was saying "only quick format it."
http://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=ASC&topic_id=1667&forum=9&move=prev
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You're probably thinking of low level format, which can be dangerous for drives which don't support it. However, this is different to a slow format of a partition, which is perfectly safe for any partition.
Edit - just read the link you posted. Hmm, don't know why slow format isn't safe. I'm sure I've used it without problems. But you might as well just quick format it anyway.
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moto