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Offline MichaelCGaleTopic starter

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SupraDrive 4x4 SCSI Interface
« on: September 21, 2003, 06:41:32 PM »
I have a SupraDrive 4x4 SCSI interface card for my Amiga 1000, and I would like to know if it could support a 1 GB SCSI hard disk.  I believe this is a constraint for the driver, and not for the interface card, but I just wanted to make sure.  I've seen hardware listings from people who own Amiga 1000 machines, and they have even larger hard disks attached, but I found a separate source that only hard disks with < 512 MB storage capacity could be used.  Anyone know the REAL story?

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Re: SupraDrive 4x4 SCSI Interface
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2003, 03:38:48 AM »
I'm certinly no athority here, but I can guess......

I would think its like the earlier dos and 2 gig limit.
I would guess you have to partition the drive at
whatever the limit is. If its 512 megs and you have
a 1 gig drive then you need 2 partitions or some
variation , 2,3 or more partitions to use the whole drive.
The only problem I see is Low-Level formatting
the drive, but maybe you could format it on another
machine.

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Re: SupraDrive 4x4 SCSI Interface
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2003, 07:52:38 AM »
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melott wrote:
The only problem I see is Low-Level formatting
the drive


This is no need to low-level format.
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