A4000T multiple drives in "Boot Option"

[pyrre]

Reduce the partition size in the system. Always keep FFS partitions to under 2Gb.

I was about to comment this as well...
Ive had ghost drives showing up in my SCSI chain when i had partitions larger than 4 gig... The partition failed and erased all my data shortly after.

After som good advices from people here in a.org my boot partition is always the first one on a drive and never exceeds 1 gig. i think the boot partitions are 500meg or less on all my computers now.

I have never had any problems with my scsi chain(s) after that.

[pyrre]

Thanks rkauer and pyrre,

The two drives with 4GB partitions have been like that since 2004. But I never got around to pushing their limits, having only 110MB each on them. One drive is the primary drive and the other is a backup.
Sounds a bit daunting thou to re-partition them.  
OK, so I think I'll go with the 500MB partitions idea, so they will fit when I burn them to a CD.  

So, I guess the best approach here is to "nuke" the backup drive and set up 8 partitions, format them all and then backup up to one of them before I mess with the primary drive.

Then I'll boot on that backup.  But it's at this point I have found it so frustrating in the past, dealing with assign issues.  Any ideas or suggestions here?   Can I just rename the primary to something else and the backup to name of the primary before I reboot?

When I resurrected the computer back in 2004 after hard drive failure I got it up to a minimal state to run PhonePak and CyberCron/CyberX10 to control Radio Shack Plug-N-Power modules in my home.

I now want to get Ami back to her glory days and then back up everything on CDROM and to likewise backup all my Amiga floppy disks.   I am seeking to preserve all I have that I can.
Any advice/suggestions to this end are welcomed.

Thanks again,

LeEric

My setup is:
Boot partition:
500MB

Second partition:
1.5 gig

Third partition:
2gig

Fourth partition:
2gig


Dont remember the filesystem though....
It is rather new, and capable of handling large partitions.
The two 2gig partitions do not show up if i boot with no startup_sequence. But run setpatch and they show up at once....