Large SCSI HD's under OS 3.9

[doctorq]

When using OS3.9 with BoingBag2 there shouldn't be a problem using a 36 GB partition, but if I were you I would install SFS or PFS on the harddrive.

Are you going to replace the 8.5 GB with the 36 GB, or is it only for backup?

I'm using a 76 GB partition on my own system, and no problems so far. As for the disk usage problem you mention; forget about it, as the program can't handle the large size drives...

[doctorq]

I am worried about SFS and/or PFS...I am a little scared to mess with my filesystem, can't afford to have any data loss right now

And you are still using FFS? SFS for instance is much more stable and reliabel than FFS, and it's free as well.

Out of curiousity, is there any limit to the size of a SCSI HD partition under OS3.9?? I know that the OS has to be within the lowest 2GB.... but could I use a 320 GB SCSI drive?

I believe you can. I'm only using a 160 GB drive here though. The partition size depends on the filesystem IIRC, and for SFS I think it is 2 TB.

[doctorq]

One last dumb question, can the filesystems be mixed? (i.e. FFS for my IDE HD and SFS for my SCSI?

Yes, no problems with that.

When changing from one filesystem to another, just do it one partition at a time. It involves a lot of copying data from one partition to another and back again, but it can be done quite easily.

Oh, btw, SFS allows long filenames as well; FFS don't. Another reason for switching.