Mac / pc partitions within the first 4GB?

[amigadave]

I'm afraid Thomas is right, at least with PC-Task and Shapeshifter. When I upgraded my HDD to 40GB from 2.1GB, I re-formatted the 1st 1 GB of my system partition with shapeshifter several times before I finally figured it out. (I REALLY needed more coffee that day... :-D ) Ironically, though, hardfile emulation is actually faster than a partition if you have SFS and the right hardware. (060+192MB fast here, installed Win95 on both a partition and hardfile with a stopwatch, the hf+sfs was faster. I'll post the results if I can ever find them) If you want actual partitions, though, they need to be < the 4GB barrier. (Actually, I remember why it took so many times to get it to work here. The Macintosh partition crept over the 4gb barrier by a handful of KBs, and that was enough to kick MacOS into a "reformat the Amigas partitions" loop....)

Interesting and useful info, thanks.  I was just contemplating setting up either PCTask, or PCx and Fusion, or Shapeshifter on my newly reconfigured A1200/060 w/256mb RAM.

[amigadave]

Yeah, 256mb of RAM in an Amiga seems like a lot, but if I run a MacOS emulation and a MS-DOS or Windows emulation all at the same time (like I used to do with my A2000 and my Bridgeboard setup a long time ago), it will bite into that large RAM pool in a big way.  At least I don't have to worry about running out of RAM too often and I figured the Blizzard060 w/SCSI-2 add-on card has a maximum capacity of 256mb, so why not fill it up.  I did have a very hard time finding the right simms for it though, but finally got them and I am happy I did.

[amigadave]

I am glad to see you got your A1200 working so well. About time!  Now I want to play with my A4000 more!  I would bring it down to your place for a visit but it seems like Amigas die when they are moved to your house!

Hey, don't go spreading that rumor around.  They aren't dead, they are just resting until I can put them back together the way I want them set up. :lol:  

As you know, getting newer 18gb and 36gb SCSI-2, or SCSI-3 drives to work on my CyberStorm accelerators has been the biggest problem and why both of my A4000's are in pieces at the moment.  Now that the A1200 is running the way I want it, I will have more time and motivation to get the A4000's sorted out and running with the drives I want and Toaster/Flyer cards inside of them.


Edit:  And that is UP to my house you "Flat-Lander" :roflmao: