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Offline swift240Topic starter

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CF Card workbench
« on: February 14, 2017, 10:36:10 PM »
Hi all,

I use an CF Card for my Workbench its a 4Gb card, what is the maximum Gb I can use on my Amiga 1200 ?

Some have told me the maximum I can use is only 4Gb BUT is that real true?
BTW the CF card is Sandisc.
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Re: CF Card workbench
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2017, 10:57:55 PM »
4gb is the limit (32bit limitation) but there are ways via software to get around this as per the following links -

http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/4gb_faq.html

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=32256
 

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Re: CF Card workbench
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2017, 11:00:28 PM »
OK thank you for the reply.
Amiga 1200, 82gb HD, 4 way IDE\'97, DVD Multi-Recorder, OS3.9, BB1,BB2, Apollo Turbo MkII 030/40, 32meg Fastram, 4Gb CF card PCMCIA slot, IDE CF card adaptor 4Gb CF card, HP 810C, Alba HDTV, Converted PC PSU. C128, C64, C16, Plus4, 1701, 1570, 1541MkII, ARP6.0,KCS Power Cart, FreezeFrame MK3B, Freeze Machine, Simons Basic,  PSP, PS1, PS2, PS3 HDMI and 1TB HD+ 80gb USB HD, PS3 TV add on, Sound Surround speakers for PS2,PS3,PC, and Amiga Amazing so
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: CF Card workbench
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2017, 12:31:44 AM »
Upgrade to 3.9 or utilize various hacks and patches to "break the 4GB limit".  You'll still want to keep your Workbench SYS: partition small, so you can boot off it and for compatibility with older software.
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Offline paul1981

Re: CF Card workbench
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2017, 10:04:34 AM »
Quote from: swift240;822162
Hi all,

I use an CF Card for my Workbench its a 4Gb card, what is the maximum Gb I can use on my Amiga 1200 ?

Some have told me the maximum I can use is only 4Gb BUT is that real true?
BTW the CF card is Sandisc.


If you use the PFS-aio file system you can use up to 8GB when using the old Commodore scsi.device in ROM. If you were to upgrade scsi.device by loading a newer version in via LoadModule, you can then use up to 2TB depending on the filesystem used.

Have a look at this: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=61666
 

Offline darksun9210

Re: CF Card workbench
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2017, 12:29:22 PM »
i notice you've got an 82Gig drive in your machine as per your sig. So it's the same deal as that really.
just keep your SYS drive inside that first 4gig and any emulator partitions in that first 4gig too just to be safe.

A500, A600, A1200x3, A2000, A3000, A4000 & a CD32.
and probably just like the rest of you, crates full of related "treasure" for the above XD