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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: melott on October 02, 2003, 04:51:06 PM

Title: Large SCSI drives REvisited
Post by: melott on October 02, 2003, 04:51:06 PM

OK....... I still have a problem with partitioning.

I'm still looking for a prg. that will partition and
format this 47 gig SCSI drive.
I've tried C= HDTools, won't touch it.
HDInstTools can't do it.
RDPrep will do a small portion of the drive.

Does anyone know of a prg. that will do a 47 gig
drive, PD or whatever ??

Mel Ott

Title: Re: Large SCSI drives REvisited
Post by: melott on October 02, 2003, 05:12:21 PM

I did somemore checking......

It looks like 'PFS3' might do it.
Does anyone know if PFS3 will format and
partition this drive. The ad says it supports
these large drives but not if it does the actual
formatting and partitioning.

Mel Ott

Title: Re: Large SCSI drives REvisited
Post by: Eddie on October 16, 2003, 02:40:25 AM

>I did somemore checking......
>
>It looks like 'PFS3' might do it.
>Does anyone know if PFS3 will format and
>partition this drive. The ad says it supports
>these large drives but not if it does the actual
>formatting and partitioning.

Yep, PFS3 will definately handle it (the limit for it is something ridiculously high).  I've got a 36Gb scsi harddrive on my A4000 partitioned up with PFS3 working with no problems.  

PFS3 comes with hdinstall tools that will allow you to partition the drive plus a new format command - I've had to problems with it and its been a dream getting away from the constant revalidations I had with FFS  :-)

Title: Re: Large SCSI drives REvisited
Post by: Corrie on October 18, 2003, 03:14:21 AM

I am running an A4000T (ESCOM), Cyberstorm MKIII,
does anyone know if it is possible to install and use [1] 73gig 68pin 15000rpm SCSI drive or [2] 146gig 68pin 10000rpm SCSI drive?

IS there anyone out there who had actually done this?

 

Title: Re: Large SCSI drives REvisited
Post by: Thematic on October 18, 2003, 11:05:19 AM

For large SCSI drives OS 3.5/3.9 is highly recommended. YMMV.

The Cyberstorm interface should work nicely with those high-performance drives.

Title: Re: Large SCSI drives REvisited
Post by: Lemmink on October 18, 2003, 12:52:03 PM

For partitioning such a big drive in one Block you should consider an alternative Filesystem. I have lately tried a 50 GB SCSI Drive on the SCSI controller of an E-Matrix 530. Under OS3.9 and FFS the largest single partition that could be formated useing quickformat was 17 GB (I found this out by try an error) Still this could be a limitation of the E-Mtrix devicedriver. On my A4000T I have an 60 GB IDE drive running on the UWSCSI of the CSPPC via an IDE-SCSI converter and I have a partiton of around 20 GB running with no Problem, but I`m useing SFS for this drive.