6 GB Hard Disk

[motorollin]

orange wrote:
just extract the setpatch command.. it may need few additional files.

Yes you also need the AmigaOS ROM Update in DEVS:. Without this, setpatch will run but won't patch scsi.device to make it save to write above 4GB.

If you have OS3.9, the safest way is just to install it. That way you can be sure your >4GB access is working properly.

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moto

[motorollin]

Mauro73 wrote:
I can't understand this os rom thing

OS3.9 has its own version of Kickstart. But it's not on a chip, it's in the form of a file on hard disk. Setpatch applies this update on cold boot so that your Amiga is running Kickstart 3.9, which includes an updated scsi.device which is safe to use above 4GB.

But you don't really need to know that. I was really just pointing out that if you're trying to hack OS3.9 features in to OS3.1, then it's not as simple as copying Setpatch. If you're actually installing OS3.9 in full then don't worry - it will take care of all of this stuff for you.

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moto

[motorollin]

Mauro73 wrote:
Thank you for the explanation, now I understand: it's an operation similar to the one that relokick does, isnt'it?

I would imagine the principle is the same. It softkicks the 3.9 updates and Kickstart is then accessed from RAM.

Mauro73 wrote:
Anyway, I've installed wb 3.9 and everything works fine now.
Now I'm installing programs and utilities... so, I'm pretty happy for now  :-)

One thing... did you re-partition your hard disk after booting from the Emergency Disk? If not then your partition is still using the 3.1 version of FFS, which cannot write above 4GB.

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moto