Larger Hard Drives with WB 3.1

[Thomas]

slippymadfrog wrote:
I need to use a 8 gb hard drive (full capacity) with Workbench 3.1?  Is there a special utility?

Dave

Try this: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hjohn/SFS184.lha
It allows you to use up to 8GB without any additional patch.
Be warned: later versions of SFS have lost this feature (SCSI-Direct).

If you own PFS you can use PFSds for the same purpose.

To use the 64bit commands mentioned above you need both, a new file system (SFS any version, PFS, or FastFileSystem V43+) and a 64bit-cappable IDE driver (IDEfix or OS3.5+). Also you have to make sure that both use the same command set, there are differences (NSD64 vs. TD64).

Get http://www.aminet.net/aminet.cgi?string=check4gb to check if everything is set up correctly.

Bye,
Thomas