OFS has a disk size limit of 8MB.
But when he says he uses FFS then he does. FFS comes with WB 1.3 on floppy disk. It is not in the Kickstart ROM and thus cannot be used with floppy disks. But it can be installed into the RDB and used for HDD partitions.
I don't know the limitation of the old FFS but you should not expect to be able to use more than 500MB or so with an A500 controller anyway.
Even with a decent controller and a non-limited FFS, you cannot access more than the first 4GB of the HDD. With the old versions there might be a 2GB limit either.
Please note that it is not a partitions size limit but a *disk* size limit. You can access the first 4GB resp. 2GB of the disk. If you create partitions past the limit, accesses to those partitions will destroy the data on the first partitions.
So suggest your club member to create one 100MB partition in the beginning of the drive and try to format it. If it works, be happy. Create one 100MB partition after another until one fails to format. This partition and the rest of the HDD should remain unused.
Now that you know the maximum disk size, you can delete the 100MB partitions and create one or two partitions as you like within the limit.
Bye,
Thomas
