Amiga Hard Drive size limitations

[Thomas]

The exact limit is 4,294,967,296 Bytes a.k.a. 4.29 GB a.k.a. 4.0 GiB.

You can use Check4GB to check if the partitions are inside the limit.

You can use FixHDDSize to limit the harddrive to 4 GiB so that you don't need to care when creating or moving partitions.

You can also manually limit the harddrive to 4 GiB if you overtype the geometry by these values:

cylinders =  8322
heads = 16
blocks per track = 63
blocks per cylinder = 1008

[Thomas]

http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/4gb_faq.html

[Thomas]

1.3 does not have any limit because it does not contain any drivers for harddrives. Limits are defined by the firmware of your harddrive controller.

2.04 does not contain HDD drivers, either.

2.05 is similar to 3.0, it contains the same scsi.device version (36).

[Thomas]

You can use as many different file systems as you can fit on your harddrives. But you can only use one version of the same file system. So if you've installed FastFileSystem on different harddrives, the highest version of FastFileSystem found is used for all harddrives. But you can use FFS, PFS, SFS all at the same time (on different partitions of course). And certainly higher versions of FastFileSystem still work with small drives.

A file system is identified by its identifier a.k.a. DosType. You can add different versions of the same file system if you assign different identifiers to them.