Long Filename Support + Large HDD Support

[Thomas]

Filenames read from CDRom are being truncated up to 8 digits...

Install a file system which supports Joliet. For example AsimCDFS or CacheCDFS (IDEfix or OS3.5/3.9).

Only 8 gigs from the HDD are being 'seen',

Enter the correct geometry manually when defining the new drive type.

and with a maximum size of 4 gigs per partition

I doubt that. Each and every available partitioning program allows to create partitions as big as the entire drive. If you can use them is another story. Without the appropiate software patches you can only use partitions which entirely reside inside the first 4GB of the HDD. If you'd give some details about your hard- and software configuration one could tell you more.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

AsimCDFS is a commercial software product. AFAK it is no longer available (except second-hand).

If these CDs you are trying to read are self-made (i.e. CD-R), another solution could be to write a CD which every Amiga CDFS can read. For example you could configure your writing program to use ISO level 2 instead of level 1. This would give you 32 characters instead of 8, but still all in upper case. Or you could run an Amiga writing program inside WinUAE. For example MakeCD. With this method you could write real Amiga CDs. MakeCD also allows to override the ISO standard, so that mixed-case file names are used with ISO level 2. These CDs could be read by both, Windows and AmigaOS.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

"Enter the correct geometry manually when defining the new drive type."

How do I do that? The HDD is 60 gigs in size.

Heads, sectors and cylinders should be printed on the HDD's label. Enter them into the appropiate input fields. If the values are 16/63/16383, then find the formatted number of sectors instead. Divide it by 1008 to get the real number of cylinders. Should be something around 116000.

If you are on a budget and upgrade to Kickstart 3.1, you can use the official scsi.device patch, NSDPatch and updated FFS that Amiga Technologies released for OS 3.1 users.

You don't need Kick 3.1 for this. The updated scsi.device and FFS work on Kick 3.0 as well, even on Kick 2.0.

And you don't need NSDPatch at all. It does not give you anything. No benefit, no functionality, no nothing.

The files we are talking about are available here: http://os.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=37

But they are beta and nag with requesters about expired beta periods. You also need these files in order to make them be quiet and run on Kick 3.0:

http://aminet.net/package/util/sys/patchstrip
http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/FFS43.19_patch
http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/LoadModule

If you understand German, you'll find a tutorial how to install them here: http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/bighdd/index.html

Bye,
Thomas