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a500+ with IDE68k - Largest Drive/partition supported?
« on: June 10, 2012, 12:21:31 PM »
Hi All, looking at adding an IDE68k to my 500+ and was wondering what the supported Drive and partition sizes are?

Im prolly going to use a CF-IDE adaptor with a 4GB card and one thing I was hoping to do was put a 1GB FAT32 partition on the CF Card for SneakerNet purposes.
« Last Edit: June 10, 2012, 11:02:33 PM by djos »
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Re: a500+ with IDE68k - Largest Drive/partition supported?
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2012, 07:10:24 PM »
IDE68k imitates the Gayle functions of an A600 so it's actually like having an A600 with IDE support on the matter.
Based on the kickstart (scsi.device) and the filesystem used you can have from 4GB cap per partition or more using and updated scsi.device and filesystem.

I don't know what SnerakNet is but since you're using an CF card, it's not so important to make any FAT32 partition as you can mount the CF to a PC using a multicard reader and access it easily via WinUAE :)
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Re: a500+ with IDE68k - Largest Drive/partition supported?
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2012, 11:03:58 PM »
Thanks, that was a typo, should have read SneakerNet :D
« Last Edit: June 11, 2012, 02:02:38 AM by djos »
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Amiga 1200 w/ ACA1220 16Mhz 128MB w/ RTC, 4GB CF-HDD, Roland MT-32 MIDI Synthesiser
Amiga 500 w/ KS2.05, 1Mb Chip-Ram, CF-IDE w/4MB Fast-Ram, FDD Boot Selector, HxC RevC Floppy emulator
Commodore 64 w/ 1541 Ultimate-II inc Tape Adapter, JiffyDOS, 1541 Disk Drive, 1531 Datasette, Flyer Net Modem