IDEfix97 limits my HD size to 128GB. How can I fix?

[paul1981]

stupid question perhaps... but is there really enough Amiga OS/Software to fill 2T ??

Tom UK

The whole of Aminet has "recently crossed the 30 GB barrier" (Quote from Aminet). Puts things into perspective a bit.
Then there's probably 5GB of games (commercial and PD). Everything else that exists besides probably takes it up to 50GB at most.
With 2TB you could store a lot of digital music, or photo's. He doesn't necessarily want to strictly store Amiga stuff. He could want to store all of his digital camera photo's. That would be a good idea, as I'd personally trust my data on an Amiga more than any other computer.

[paul1981]

Well depends on how you look at it, the latest Amiga CD tosec is 234GB large when compressed, the Amiga cd coverdisk tosec is 103GB compressed, the Amiga CD Compilations tosec is 100GB etc..

Yes, and I can believe it, but I was thinking more along the lines of Amiga programs/utilities/applications and what not, and games, not particularly animations or art collections or cd32 games that are also available on floppy as well. But yes, you certainly have a point, the collection could be that large if you wanted it to be.:cool:
 I suspect though that real unique programs/data wouldn't exceed 100GB. I certainly wouldn't know where to get 50GB of unique Amiga programs/floppy games let alone 1TB.

Then again, I'm with danbeaver, I'm not deliberatly trying to create an Amiga software preservation reserve (I can't rule it out though for the future).

[paul1981]

You are thinking way to small my friend.  I had 5GB of Amiga software (games + busines + art + textures + fonts + sounds + music) by around 1993 and I certainly did not have everything made.

Today I have 32GB just of Amiga CD gamez and I don't have all of them.


I have around 8GB of Amiga fonts.

I have something like 700GB of gfx and sounds and we constantly make more.




You make a great point!

But why would digital music and photos not count as Amiga stuff?  Commodore machines practically invented digital music and digital photos.

The first digital music I ever heard that didn't hurt my ears was on the C64.  The Entertainer Demo, Frogger, Frantic Freddie,  etc.  The first digital photo I ever saw that looked like a digital photo was an Amiga 500 showing the NewTek Demo Reel 1 and 2 with Laura Longfellow, Kiki Stockhammer and the Ragu Spaghetti Sauce bottle.  Do you not remember any of this?

Yes, I remember. I grew up with a C64. I love SID, but technically, it's an analogue synth, albeit digitally controlled. So really I'd say the Amiga impressed me the most regarding digital music.
The first graphics that I saw that had the wow factor for me was an Atari ST playing "Another World" at a mates (bear in mind the best I had seen were C64 up until then). Soon after, my next door neighbour had a new A500+ with Lotus, Lemmings, and The Simpsons... It was OMG!!! It was love at first sight... What visuals! What sounds! It blew me away basically.
Another mate had a Megadrive a bit before then, but It didn't impress me that much for some reason, although I love the MD now.