That's it!

[xaccrocheur]

Good one olegil... Excuse me if I don't laugh too loud, I'm a little tired today

I'd sell my sister for a Cyberstorm PPC & SCSI... In the meantime I only have the GVP option.

If anybody knows how to get out of this trap, please mail me.

pX

[olegil]

Hmm, if I had a CPPC I might have taken you up on that trade ;-)

My sister has started to produce offspring, and somehow I get the feeling my parents think I should have beaten her to it, being older and all. So I need either: a girlfriend, or: a less backstabbing sister :-P

[xaccrocheur]

Well, what do you *really* need ?  :-P

[olegil]

Not right now, thanks. The G3 is enough for me for some time yet :-)

[amigau]

the definitive article on the 4GB barrier is from dhomas trenn at www.youngmonkey.ca, but in trying to post the URL here his site may not be online at the moment, so just put in

'beyond the 4gb barrier'

in Google, and you can view the cached version instead.

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[amigau]

and additionally, I'm using a 4.5GB quantum viking drive on my A2000 webserver with a TekMagic card, that is essentially a GVP card, it uses GVP utilities, after all.

the key is having the TD64 FFS version, that allows you to do it, as outlined in the article from the previous post.  Keep partition sizes under 2GB, too - so for a 4.5 GB drive, I have a 500MB boot partition, and then two ~2GB storage partitions, and it works fine.

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[Damion]

@whabang

Have you thought of picking up a good used mobo
for your 1200? Maybe you could find one cheap
somewhere.

I found my 1200 new about a year ago in the
States. I'm very careful with it as it was
made in 96/97. So far though I've had good luck
with computer hardware. My old 64,128 and 500
still work fine....and I used the 128 for
years on end back in the day. I even have a
relic 8086 around somewhere that still works,
even its original hard drive (an old -
school HUGE one) is still operating.

[QuikSanz]

What? I use the Barracuda 18Gb HD on my 2000 w/Tekmagic 060 combo accel. The sys "boot" partition is 300Mb the others range from 4 to 4.4Gb. I may end up merging some partiones and adding to there size but if there is a failure it may be a little harder to restore the drive. ALWAYS have an up to date emergency boot disk around!;)

Chris  

[anarchic_teapot]

whabang wrote:
actually, I'll keep the A600 for games ).

A wise decision  ;-)
I did the same (the space previously occupied by the A1200T is now assigned to the A1), though I couldn't stand WinUAE for very long. Roll on Umilator and AOS4. If I'd got rid of the A600 my children would never have forgiven me.

Have you seen this
site on expanding your A600 safely? I tried the ventilator fan mod and it works beautifully with my Viper 630. Now the A600 is much more stable, for only 5 USD/euros and a bit of insulating[1] tape .

Rose
[1] Why on earth did I type "insulting tape" first time round???

[amigamad]

ive been lucky so far all of my machines still work fear of a my cdtv dying is the worst but im not going to stop using it, i use it as a cd player as well as a machine for playing old games and i have the hardware mp3 device, bought from eyetech had to do my own bootdisk to run the software though .the only machine i have wich has a fault is my cd32 which does not spin disc properly disc seem to slip stupid sony cd mechanism.and my a1200 my first one for some reason stoped booting with my blizzard ppc and ide controler if i disconnect ide interface it would boot i presume something is playing up a bit with powert circuit, eyetech used to sell a device for getting extra power to ppc board. I can see why your fed up the world seems to be against you at the moment i hate it when things keep going wrong but things will get better just try not to let it get you down to much. :-D

[kengur]

I'm really getting sick of all of you guys crying on how you`re gonna leave Amiga for ever.

Amiga is THE reason I ever got into computers and therefore I`ll probably never abbandon it, no matter how hard times are.

If you are about to drop your interest in Amiga, that`s your decission and mistake, but PLEASE, just go and don`t make tragedy bigger than it really is.

[whabang]

Nobody said that anyone is abandoning the Amiga...
I'm just ditching my A1200. I'll still hang on to my A600 ( if it still works :-D ).

[Dan]

I think the C= stuff has better quality than the Escom stuff though...

Agreed, and the older models( A500/2000) is better than the surfacemounted models (A600/1200). I´m very scared  everytime i open my amiga that it´s not gonna start again.

[Dan]

Nobody said that anyone is abandoning the Amiga...
I'm just ditching my A1200. I'll still hang on to my A600 ( if it still works  ).

well that makes sense, but ggsdata has a1200 mobos for 850SEK if you want one.
Anyway since you aren´t abandoning the Amiga will you buy an AmigaOne???
I mean when OS4 is released of course.

[xaccrocheur]

amigau wrote:
the definitive article on the 4GB barrier is from dhomas trenn at www.youngmonkey.ca, but in trying to post the URL here his site may not be online at the moment, so just put in

'beyond the 4gb barrier'

in Google, and you can view the cached version instead.

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

@amigau
@whabang

thanks guys. I read through all this, and tried almost everything. when I'll finish to hack NSDPatch.cfg out it will be safe to say that [color=CC0000]gvpscsi.device, patched or not, is absolutely incapable of handling >4GB DRIVES (not only partitions)[/color]

Mind you, I even tried to "prep out" the >4Gb part of the drive, thus abandonning 300Mb :-( by making a 3rd 300Mb partition @ the end of the drive, a ticking out "automount" well at reboot, it STILL Does not recognize properly the second partition.

What do you think of that ? Damn, it's the 1st time on the Amiga, that I see something so big that is not yet addressed by clever hacking.

Again, I did not try all the possibilities of the MAMMOTH NSDPatch. If anybody knows anybody using SCSI drives on a gvp HC+8 controller, please, ask him to send me his DEVS:NSDPatch.cfg thru xaccrocheur at halluci dot net.

What I want now is ANOTHER SCSI controller.

I browsed through the web but this is complicated, as only a SCSI adapter is not what I want, and it's not even available separately. What would be a major upgrade to this 4K would be a DCE Cyberstorm PPC /w 060 @ 50MHz, 604e @ 233MHz

With a SCSI module... Damn, I want this.

but I found it listed at very different prices ! Can somebody post a place, pref. In europe, that sell the thing at a normal price ?

Is there an alternative solution ? What I want is a fast, reliable machine for my 2D works.

thanks to all of you

pX

[olegil]

Dan wrote:

Nobody said that anyone is abandoning the Amiga...
I'm just ditching my A1200. I'll still hang on to my A600 ( if it still works  ).

well that makes sense, but ggsdata has a1200 mobos for 850SEK if you want one.
Anyway since you aren´t abandoning the Amiga will you buy an AmigaOne???
I mean when OS4 is released of course.

Well, I purchased one of each of these, and am not regretting it :-)

(1 A1200 motherboard from GGS-Data, and 1 A1G3-SE last year).
At the moment I am also considering spending 200EUR on an Access 1200 to put in the A1 tower (neat solution for old software, I think :-) ).

And I played Hybris on the A500 last night :-)