A1200 with many partitions: disk buffers/icons eating up all chipram

[leirbag28]

@HardStep

Wow.....20 Partitions, thats got to be a Record hehe

I myself have about 10 Partitions. 2 for Workbenches 3.1 and 3.9 and the rest are: Work - Work8......they are about 4 gig each (40gig HD)

WHy is your harddrive only 4200 rpm? is it  a laptopHD?  they finally got them in 100gb?  cool...got to get me one........does the 8mb Cache speed up things?


Anyway.....there is a way to disable the HD's from OS3.9............Select WORKBENCH in the prefs and you will see the option "HIDDEN DEVICES" then just check off the ones you dont want to be seen........then save it like that and reboot.  This is also good if there is content on one of the HD's that contains personall data that you dont want to be seen.

[leirbag28]

@Matt_H

What I suggested..hides the icons......thus saving ChipRAM which is what he is trying to do.


as far as them still being accessible..............I was'nt able to do that. And programs that needed those particualr Partitions couldnt access them if I am not mistaken...........I could be wrong on that part and I may be thinking of when the HD's didnt show up unintentionally