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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: RedWarrior on November 13, 2003, 01:33:52 PM

Title: If a hard-drive crashes in the forest....
Post by: RedWarrior on November 13, 2003, 01:33:52 PM

If there are limits to how big  your hard-drive can be with earlier Workbench revisions (2.1 for example)...  what does this mean?

a) if the limit is 1 gig, a 1.2 gig drive will not work AT ALL

or

b) if the limit is 1 gig, a 1.2+ gig drive will only be used to 1 GIG CAPACITY

?

Title: Re: If a hard-drive crashes in the forest....
Post by: darksun9210 on November 13, 2003, 01:34:36 PM

option b

Title: Re: If a hard-drive crashes in the forest....
Post by: Skippy on November 13, 2003, 01:38:40 PM

You might find this faq (http://www.amigarealm.com/computing/knowledge/kbc7.htm) helpful.

Ciao,

Skippy

Title: Re: If a hard-drive crashes in the forest....
Post by: Cass on November 13, 2003, 02:05:27 PM

How older? Prior to 3.5 or to 3.0 ?

I had the Seagate ST32122A 2.1GB on my AMiGA with 3.0 and 3.1 WB, without encountering any problems.
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Title: Re: If a hard-drive crashes in the forest....
Post by: KennyR on November 13, 2003, 02:10:03 PM

Both a and b are correct.

For example, on WB3:

If you partition only the first 4GB of a HD with 2.1GB partitions or less on plain OS3.1 or less, things will work and the rest of the drive will go to waste.

Then again, if you try to partition the whole drive with bigger partitions, your system will become very badly screwed up.

I would say it would be the same principle for WB2.

Title: Re: If a hard-drive crashes in the forest....
Post by: Linchpin on November 13, 2003, 02:20:08 PM

Im running 3.1 on a fujitsu HDD with 100mb partition for os3.1 and the rest (2.1gb) with,, well not a lot on it lol!