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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: MichaelCGale on September 21, 2003, 06:41:32 PM

Title: SupraDrive 4x4 SCSI Interface
Post by: MichaelCGale on September 21, 2003, 06:41:32 PM

I have a SupraDrive 4x4 SCSI interface card for my Amiga 1000, and I would like to know if it could support a 1 GB SCSI hard disk.  I believe this is a constraint for the driver, and not for the interface card, but I just wanted to make sure.  I've seen hardware listings from people who own Amiga 1000 machines, and they have even larger hard disks attached, but I found a separate source that only hard disks with < 512 MB storage capacity could be used.  Anyone know the REAL story?

Michael

Title: Re: SupraDrive 4x4 SCSI Interface
Post by: melott on September 22, 2003, 03:38:48 AM

I'm certinly no athority here, but I can guess......

I would think its like the earlier dos and 2 gig limit.
I would guess you have to partition the drive at
whatever the limit is. If its 512 megs and you have
a 1 gig drive then you need 2 partitions or some
variation , 2,3 or more partitions to use the whole drive.
The only problem I see is Low-Level formatting
the drive, but maybe you could format it on another
machine.

Mel Ott
 

Title: Re: SupraDrive 4x4 SCSI Interface
Post by: N7VQM on September 22, 2003, 07:52:38 AM

Quote

melott wrote:
The only problem I see is Low-Level formatting
the drive

This is no need to low-level format.