Shapeshifter HD Question

[CU_AMiGA]

Hi folks,

Just a quick question, when formatting an Amiga HD partition as a Mac HD on the Mac side, would i format as a Macintosh disk or a PC Formated disk? As the latter only seems to work (although i haven't fully tested it). I get an error message with the other one.

Thanks,

[dslcc]

Definitely a Mac formatted disk. I used Shapeshifter and Fusion for
many years and it was always a mac format. How big is the partition?

[stefcep]

Both should work if you format from the Mac side

[CU_AMiGA]

Thanks for the replies,

The partition size is 3.9gig. I think the message i get under Mac emulation when formatting the HD in Mac format is something like "disk is deffective", i think, or something like that. When i do PC format, it seems to be formatting.

Regards,

[dslcc]

It has been awhile since I've even used a classic miggie seriously - but if I recall...I think that there is a maximum partition size depending on the version of MacOS you are running. I can't find the information right off had, but I think that it was somewhere near 2 GB? I may be wrong on this. Have you tried formatting a different partition? What version of MacOS are you using?

David

[Matt_H]

Be careful! ShapeShifter doesn't seem to be 4Gig+ friendly. My Mac partition was above the 4Gig barrier and the emulation overwrote my DH1 and DH2 partitions. Twice (I wanted to make sure it wasn't a random fluke). Thankfully I had backups, but it was a serious pain to restore them.

I've given up on Mac emulation until I get a separate dummy drive to use.

[patrik]

@Matt_H:

You could always use a mac-filedisk on a partition with the SFS filesystem to get by the 4GB+ problem. That solution works very well and feels almost as fast as a dedicated mac partition.


/Patrik

[CU_AMiGA]

I too have heard of problems above the 4gig barrier, hence that is why i have done 3.9gig for now. I have system software 7.5.5. I currently use a hard file, but that is too slow at times when reading/writing things to it. So i am using a dedicated partition. If the system software doesn't support the partition size i am using then please let me know and i will lower it.

Thanks,

[Framiga]

Hi CU_AMIGA

my suggestion, is to use a separated drive for the MAC only.

Cheap and safe solution.

Ciao

PS- is it possible to install JAVA on SS-MAC? (MacOS7.6.1)

[Matt_H]

patrik wrote:
@Matt_H:

You could always use a mac-filedisk on a partition with the SFS filesystem to get by the 4GB+ problem. That solution works very well and feels almost as fast as a dedicated mac partition.

/Patrik

You know, I might try that as a stopgap measure. Thanks!

[dslcc]

That is correct. NO part of the mac partition can be above the first 4
gigs of the hard drive or you could run into serious problems
problems. If you have access to a second drive, I'd suggest using
it as a dedicated mac disk.

[Daedalus]

CU_AMiGA wrote:
I too have heard of problems above the 4gig barrier, hence that is why i have done 3.9gig for now. I have system software 7.5.5. I currently use a hard file, but that is too slow at times when reading/writing things to it. So i am using a dedicated partition. If the system software doesn't support the partition size i am using then please let me know and i will lower it.

Yes, I had the same problem, and iirc there is a 2GB limit on the partition size... Why not use 2 of them? Then you'll have 2x2GB partitions on the mac size, and that's your 4 gigs

Regards,
    Rob