20gb A600 KS3.1

[daniel_swe]

Hello!

Maybe someone turn me in for abuse, for posting so much questions, but i just love this forum! All the knowledge and everyones kind help!

Well of to the question now

I have a A600 that i want to pop in my old 20gb laptop drive in! Is that possible? Will it in some way handle the 20gb? I dont need all the 20gb ofcourse. but i want to know if its possible to use it

[orange]

its possible, sure. the only problem is lack of RAM. you didn't say how muchi is installed.
each partition takes buffers that 'eat' RAM.

to 'break' the 4Gb limit, I use setpatch from OS3.9 and pfs3 in a1200. it should work in a600 too.
there are other ways, though.

[pVC]

You can use the drive, but if you don't update scsi.device and filesystem, you'd better only use first 4GB area of the HD for your partitions.

For example, you could install OS etc under that 4GB barrier first and then later on if you need more space, you could update needed components and take rest of the space in use too.

[Gavilan]

Or you could try some "ready-to-go" Workbenchs, like Classic Workbench or such...very very useful
 :-)

[countzero]

classic workbench has nothing to do with the 4gb problem. problems are : FastFileSystem, scsi.device of A600.

For FastFileSystem, there are two alternatives, use SmartFileSystem (only for 020), or FFS of OS 3.9.

For scsi device, you need patched scsi device. Not sure this is possible without softkicking (or a custom ROM). Which will lower your available RAM even more.

Classic workbench has nothing to do with these two, because it is based on OS 3.0/3.1.

But it is useful, for other purposes, yes.