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Re: Biggest possible drives on the Amiga?
« on: April 02, 2008, 08:51:48 PM »
It depends on what version of AmigaOS you are running.  AmigaOS 3.5 or newer supports 64-bit addressing once setpatch is loaded from the boot partition.  There is also a patch for AmigaOS 3.1 that can be downloaded separately.  This will allow full-capacity drives to be used with those systems as long as the boot partition is 2 gigs or less.

Also, you might consider SmartFilesystem rather than FFS for the larger drives and partitions since an invalidated allocation bitmap can take a long time for the disk-validator to run.