That's it!

[amigau]

you never specified what kind of amiga you had (that died). . . ?

as for old hardware still going strong, I'm amazed about the reliability of the A2000/060-50/64mb RAM webserver i'm using, that thing keeps going and going for months on end without a reboot.. . .

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[amigau]

the definitive article on the 4GB barrier is from dhomas trenn at www.youngmonkey.ca, but in trying to post the URL here his site may not be online at the moment, so just put in

'beyond the 4gb barrier'

in Google, and you can view the cached version instead.

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[amigau]

and additionally, I'm using a 4.5GB quantum viking drive on my A2000 webserver with a TekMagic card, that is essentially a GVP card, it uses GVP utilities, after all.

the key is having the TD64 FFS version, that allows you to do it, as outlined in the article from the previous post.  Keep partition sizes under 2GB, too - so for a 4.5 GB drive, I have a 500MB boot partition, and then two ~2GB storage partitions, and it works fine.

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[amigau]

why don't you just simplify your life and get a Buddha card and IDE drive?  far simpler and performance isn't that much less, if you got a really new IDE drive, probably all but equal on an Amiga, actually.

I spent many an hour dealing with SCSI termination issues in my old A3000D before I got rid of it - in my current A2000 I have a DKB wildfire with one drive, and a Buddha with a second.  The also nice thing about the Buddha is then you can put in IDE CD-ROM drives, etc., FAR cheaper than SCSI CD drives.

And since it's an Individual Computers product, the Buddha is completely, utterly reliable, and not 15 years old, either.

good luck!

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com