>4GB on Amiga 1200 / 3.1 Workbench?

[Brian]

Don't know exactly how to do as I've not yet bothered with bigger drives (though I'll get a 40Gb for my A4000 soon and I hope OS3.9 will help me a bit on the way then).

Anyway, to help me when the time comes I've downloaded a few files (fixdisk.lha, hdinsttool.lha, nsdpatch43_20.lha, rdbrecover.lha, sfs.lha, sfstools.lha) from aminet and saved this link in my favorites.

[Brian]

Nah patches and SFS will work with OS3.1 but I'm surprized that you've not encountered problems with the Work partision... OS3.0/3.1's FFS only support 2Gb partisions and having a 3Gb drive is an accident waiting to happen (once passed the 2Gb mark even if you belive it's 2.1Gb it will actually start write over stuff in the beginning of the partision).

[Brian]

Nope... as far as I know that's just the "device" and you'll still at least need a new filesystem.

[Brian]

Well I might be wrong on the overwriting part but the original 3.0/3.1 FFS limitasions are 4Gb drive and DOS limitation are 2Gb partisions so I suspect you'll find more problems with this than just size being displayed wrong. Format probably doesn't support full format and I wonder what reorg, disksalv and other tools might do to a partision too big.