Firstly, i cant handle files above 32 or 16 megs, this could make sense as i have 32 megs of ram, but i cant wget above 32 megs nor ftp
No, it doesn't make sense, unless you are trying to download the files to the Ram disk or unless wget has a bug. (I don't think i have ever used it)
i cant archive with tar above 32, but i with lha, 16 seem to be the limit.
Tar is probably memory hungry. I don't think that you should encounter such problem with lha, but i'm not so sure.
My second issue is with the hard drive, it refuses to see more then 8 gigs of the 60 in there, this wasnt a problem before with 3.1 but im now using bb2 i figure re-defining the drive might work but that brings me back to my first issue, as i need to back things up.. Anyone got a take on this?
Is this problem solved with Thomas's utility or it persists?
Note that HDInstTools has a small issue with setting partitions bigger than 8GB, but since you are using HDToolBox..
Its worth noting that im using blizkick with speedyide and speedychip and a few others.
What is your CPU, IDE interface, File system, scsi.device version?