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Offline Franko

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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #14 from previous page: January 06, 2011, 03:23:18 AM »
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@Franko, If you have started a suitable driver. Maybe you could publish what you have so that others may continue upon it?

I think I already said that I never got round to finishing it, the reason was in the end it was much easier to disassemble the Elbox FastATA driver and fix a couple of thing in it and re-assemble it for my own personal use.

The problem with the FastATA driver though is it only works with the A1200s FastATA hardware from Elbox, they even do a different one for the A4000 version which I've never had a look at... :(

The one I began to write myself was being programmed around the 4xEIDE hardware so I have no idea if I were to go back and try to complete it if it would work with any of the other buffered interface boards... :)
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2011, 09:34:24 AM »
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what do you guys put on your miggy hard drives to fill up all that space? :)

I have literally hundreds of gigabytes of 16 bit AIFF audio files I need to store as well as CD/DVD ISO Image files which need up to 8GB storage space per file not to mention GFX data and around 9000 ADF files... :)

That's the reason I need such big HDs on my Amigas... :)
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2011, 10:08:14 AM »
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8gig files on an amiga ? Using what file system?

SFS using SFS/2 partitions... In theory the programmer claims using SFS/2 partitions you can have a single file as large a your partition is, but the biggest single file size I have used is 8.2GB for dual layer DVD ISO images... :)

I too have never had problem setting up large HDs but from the amount of folk who have PMd me here in the past couple of weeks alone it seems most folk are having trouble setting up a large HD, which I'm currently trying to find an easy way to solve for them... :)
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2011, 06:54:42 PM »
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NetBSD is a free Unix operating system from Berkeley (the school). It's based off of 4.4BSD and its lineage goes back to the beginning of Unix in the 1970s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd

I think RadosÅaw just needs some pointers about general setup of the FastATA and about interrupt handling versus polling, et cetera. Please take a look at the link and if you have some ideas, just shoot an email off to port-amiga@netbsd.org.

Thanks!

Sorry... I missed your post due to the slight distraction that was going on here...

I've read the link you posted thanks, but to be honest I know absolutely nothing about unix and only code in 68K and how to write stuff for the Amiga, C64 & Vic20 and how their hardware works... :)

I don't think anything I know about the FastATA driver or hardware would be of any use to someone writing Unix... Sorry... :)
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