That's it!

[xaccrocheur]

What should I say ? I'm trying to no avail to overcome the  4Gb barrier, my main miggy is open and useless since 3 weeks !

I've  been told to upgrade to SFS, witch did'nt cure anything and even made things worse...

Fact is, I've been told a LOT of things, and sometimes they were not true.  Looks like *nobody here* knows how to use big HDs with a GVP adapter.

And please, stop telling ppl that OS3.5+ solves the 4Gb problem, that simply is FALSE, at least with a (up to date) gvpscsi.device.

Grr, I'm relly pissed off. I WON'T settle for "not use the drive beyond the 4Gb limit" like I've been told too because 1:I need the space 2 : I got another big HD waiting 3 :  that plain bugs me.

I'm the man, she's the 'puter. She will eventually do what I want her to.

This morning in the tube I was envisioning the worse scenario... Well NO, I won't give up.

Even if sometimes, it feels very lonely...

pX

[xaccrocheur]

Good one olegil... Excuse me if I don't laugh too loud, I'm a little tired today

I'd sell my sister for a Cyberstorm PPC & SCSI... In the meantime I only have the GVP option.

If anybody knows how to get out of this trap, please mail me.

pX

[xaccrocheur]

Well, what do you *really* need ?  :-P

[xaccrocheur]

amigau wrote:
the definitive article on the 4GB barrier is from dhomas trenn at www.youngmonkey.ca, but in trying to post the URL here his site may not be online at the moment, so just put in

'beyond the 4gb barrier'

in Google, and you can view the cached version instead.

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

@amigau
@whabang

thanks guys. I read through all this, and tried almost everything. when I'll finish to hack NSDPatch.cfg out it will be safe to say that [color=CC0000]gvpscsi.device, patched or not, is absolutely incapable of handling >4GB DRIVES (not only partitions)[/color]

Mind you, I even tried to "prep out" the >4Gb part of the drive, thus abandonning 300Mb :-( by making a 3rd 300Mb partition @ the end of the drive, a ticking out "automount" well at reboot, it STILL Does not recognize properly the second partition.

What do you think of that ? Damn, it's the 1st time on the Amiga, that I see something so big that is not yet addressed by clever hacking.

Again, I did not try all the possibilities of the MAMMOTH NSDPatch. If anybody knows anybody using SCSI drives on a gvp HC+8 controller, please, ask him to send me his DEVS:NSDPatch.cfg thru xaccrocheur at halluci dot net.

What I want now is ANOTHER SCSI controller.

I browsed through the web but this is complicated, as only a SCSI adapter is not what I want, and it's not even available separately. What would be a major upgrade to this 4K would be a DCE Cyberstorm PPC /w 060 @ 50MHz, 604e @ 233MHz

With a SCSI module... Damn, I want this.

but I found it listed at very different prices ! Can somebody post a place, pref. In europe, that sell the thing at a normal price ?

Is there an alternative solution ? What I want is a fast, reliable machine for my 2D works.

thanks to all of you

pX