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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: barney on June 02, 2009, 06:12:03 AM

Title: Hard Drive on Amiga 2000 question:
Post by: barney on June 02, 2009, 06:12:03 AM

I have an Amiga 2000 with a 2091 SCSI controller.  I have the latest Roms on my 2091.  Does anybody know the largest size HD that will work with this particular SCSI controller.  Also, what size HD is typically the most stable.  Thanks.

Barney

Title: Re: Hard Drive on Amiga 2000 question:
Post by: pan1k on June 02, 2009, 06:15:20 AM

Hey Dude!

You are still limited to 2GB Partitions.. with a rev 7 rom, you can use larger drives.. maybe like a 10-20 gb drive would be nice split in to 2gb partitions..

Title: Re: Hard Drive on Amiga 2000 question:
Post by: barney on June 02, 2009, 06:19:29 AM

I have a 2.1 GB IBM SCSI HD.  Is this .1GB over the 2GB mark going to cause me issues?

Barney

Title: Re: Hard Drive on Amiga 2000 question:
Post by: Thomas on June 02, 2009, 08:05:18 AM

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You are still limited to 2GB Partitions.

That's not true. You cannot say this in such a general  way. Partition size is limited by the file system used. Maybe there were old versions of the Amiga file system which had a partition size limit, but at least starting with version 39 of FastFileSystem, there is no partition size limit at all.

There is a drive size limit, though. A hard drive may not be bigger than 4GB. 10 or 20 GB drives may be used, but only the first 4GB can be accessed. There are software solutions to overcome this limit, but you have to install them explicitely.

Bye,
Thomas