HD Size with Amiga?

[Vincent]

Absolutely anything at all.  Just make sure you have OS3.9's SetPatch running or you might get the wrong sizes.

I was using 3.5 to create partitions on my HD then installed OS3.9 and found out I was using half my HD and I'm pretty sure it was SetPatch - I cold booted OS3.9's floppy and got the full 20gig, but cold booting OS3.5's floppy gave me only 8gig.

[Vincent]

The boot partition has to be under the 4 gig barrier, if you don't use FFS or don't mind the long validations you could have a boot partition of 4 gig.  Mine's sitting at 2.2gig just now :-D

[Vincent]

bon wrote:

1. I installed at first a 15 GB drive which the Amiga found it was a 7.8 GB. I tried playing with the settings but no luck. So I partitioned it using only the space provided (DH0: 500 MB, and divided the rest to 2-3 partitions). Everything was ok, until I upgraded from OS 3.5 to OS 3.9. Then, whenever I booted I got read errors from all my partitions (except DH0). I supposed it was due to the hard disk's size...

I think that's because OS3.9 sees the HD as 15gig, but it's fooled into thinking it's only 7.5gig.  This 7.5gig is due to SetPatch (I think).  The read errors are possibly due to the A1200 onboard HD controller.  I have an IDEfix97 4-way buffer and haven't encountered that problem when my 20gig was formatted for 8gig - so I could be wrong with that.

I have no idea why the 3.5gig HD didn't work.  Perhaps you could try formatting/partitioning in 3.5 getting it totally setup then switch to 3.9.  Or how about trying the "HD Reselection" if that's still avaliable in 3.5 and 3.9 (I know it's in 3.1)