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Title: A1200 onboard IDE
Post by: darksun9210 on November 21, 2003, 10:14:12 AM

has anyone had a disk attached to the onboard IDE on an A1200 that has a partition space bigger than 36Gb?

i'm looking to get a new 2.5" drive but it seems that the best value/capacity is around the 40Gb mark. not that having this much space is a problem, just wondering if the 36Gb limit was a "feature" of FFS and if i needed to play with other filesystems?

i just remeber plugging a 100Gb drive into my A4000 *sigh* and HDtoolbox saw it properly, but wouldn't let me configure a partition size greater than 36Gb.

i dunno. :-? any advice greatly appriciated  :-D

Title: Re: A1200 onboard IDE
Post by: lempkee on November 21, 2003, 10:16:52 AM

i have patisions higher than 76GB on my a1200 here, i use SFS on all of it now..


i wouldnt recomend parisions over 80gb though... :)


cheers

Title: Re: A1200 onboard IDE
Post by: bloodline on November 21, 2003, 10:35:28 AM

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lempkee wrote:
i have patisions higher than 76GB on my a1200 here, i use SFS on all of it now..


i wouldnt recomend parisions over 80gb though... :)


cheers

I wouldn't recommend Parisians at all, they are usually Foul tempered and smoke alot :-D

Title: Re: A1200 onboard IDE
Post by: darksun9210 on November 21, 2003, 01:39:42 PM

Foul tempered and smoke alot .... do you know me? lol  :-D

two last questions,
where do i get SFS,
and,
do i have to use FFS on the boot partition tho? :-?

Title: Re: A1200 onboard IDE
Post by: Thomas on November 22, 2003, 02:14:02 PM

Oops, sorry, wrong topic.

Title: Re: A1200 onboard IDE
Post by: Karlos on November 23, 2003, 06:12:31 AM

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bloodline wrote:
I wouldn't recommend Parisians at all, they are usually Foul tempered and smoke alot :-D

:lol: When was the last time you had fun booting a parisian? No wonder theyre foul tempered...

Anyway, for the boot partition, anything over the OS 3.0/3.1 4Gb limit (which is what you have before OS 3.5/3.9's rom code is loaded) would be extreme overkill, so you wouldn't need SFS's large drive support for that part, you might only use it for the increased reliability.

I don't know about it that much but I would assume if you can install it on your RDB then you could make your bootable parisian SFS too ;-)