Vortex GoldenGate: selecting amiga partition as C: , FDISK reports wrong size!

[keropi]

I decided "sacrifice" a part of my 40GB amiga HD, as a dedicated goldengate partition... so I made DH4 , a 1.9GB partition. The goldengate bios-setup like thingie finds it at the correct size (1980MB) but fdisk of both MS-DOS 6.22 and PC-DOS 7.1 (IBM flavor) find it as 370MB and makes it a 370MB c: drive! installing dos there works, but where is the rest 1,6GB? I made it intentionally under 2GB so I don't pass the FAT16 2GB limit...
why is that? GoldenGate "BIOS" reports the correct size!
I even tried to split it to 2 partitions, c: and d: , 1GB and 980MB.... it appeard on FDISK as 15 nad 40? MB???! tottaly worng!
I am using OS3,9 with the default FFS, and a csppc, the goldengate works OK with it...
any info?  :-?  :-?  :angry:

[keropi]

ah, yes now I remember....
I was confued with pentim based machines, where the initial BIOS limit was 36GB....

still, I made 2 partitions of 446MB each... they come up in fdisk as 392 and 364 mb ....  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:

[keropi]

I created the partitions on the first 4GB of the amiga HD.
the max partition size visible from both GoldenGate and FDISK is ~450MB...
2 partitions (C and D) of 446MB each, work perfect  :-D  :-D  :-D

[keropi]

taking in ming that the GG's are old cards, the limits make sense....
anyway, I tested it, and it runs better than my real 386sx/20 , but still cannot reach 486sx perfomance, I tried with Wolfenstein3D , better than 386sx but still not smooth 60fps action... a real 486sx/25 plays it full frame.
also I am using it with the ATI VGA-Stereo/FX vga+sound ISA combo card, it works perfect! I have a fairly fast 1MB svga (ATI All-In-Wonder 28800 chipset) and a soundblaster/adlib compatible card that uses no drivers , works a treat!  :-D