4.3gig IDE HD with the Amiga

[dandelion]

Hi all..

My ever growing Amiga 4000 setup has a new addition. Someone has sold me a 4.3gig drive for a fiver. As I remember it 4.3 gigs was the absolute upper limit on the Amiga without patches etc. - is this correct? Don't want to install it only to find i'm losing data etc.

Cheers

Dandelion

[Karlos]

4.3G should be fine. Its the old 32-bit unsigned integer limit value.

The patches you are referring to were official, IIRC and are built into OS3.5 / 3.9 as standard. I'm using a 10G drive on my OS3.5 A1200, no problems at all, bar one - ReOrg wont touch the partitions not inside the lower 4G limit :-(

Alternatives for large drives are third party filesystems such as SFS (which seems to be a favourite).

[Brian]

Actually 4.3 is just above I think... I think i had to keep 0.1 of my 4.3 drive free or I would have trouble.  It is however a long time since I used that drive in my Amiga so my memory might be wrong but better safe than sorry, right?

[Thomas]

The actual limit is exactly 4GB, which is 4,294,967,296 bytes. Most manufacturers call this 4.3 GB. So I assume your drive is just below the limit.

Bye,
Thomas