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Re: Amiga 1200 Harddrive limitations
« on: December 13, 2005, 03:56:30 PM »
Hi Stevil2k!
    The limit on what hard drive you can use in the A1200 is dependant on the version of the OS you're using. If it's bog-standard with Kickstart 3.0 the limit is 4.3GB, if it's Kickstart 3.1 nad OS 3.9 it's, well, big enough for you. Don't know what the limit is but I've got a 120GB drive on mine and it's working no problem. If you wanted, you can use a different filesystem though and this will solve the problem to a certain extent. SFS is free, but you'll need to be reasonably competent with HDToolbox etc. In all cases anyway you'll have to keep your system partition entirely below the 2GB mark, as the OS needs to use this to load the updated versions of (or patches to) scsi.device you'll need...
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Re: Amiga 1200 Harddrive limitations
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2005, 03:57:01 PM »
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Re: Amiga 1200 Harddrive limitations
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2005, 04:29:37 PM »
It's a limitation of scsi.device, the software driver of the IDE drive... Splitting the drive like that won't work, purely as the driver can only address a 32-bit space on the drive. With an updated scsi.device you will be able to use more of the drives either by using a newer version of FFS or by using SFS. To upgrade to OS3.9, don't forget that you'll have to update the ROMs as well to version 3.1...
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