Using AOS3.9's scsi.device on 3.1 .......

[Jose]

20gb hd on standard ide port

Has anyone managed to do that?
scsi.device is in rom and it's patched by 3.9's SetPatch on boot up. If I use 3.9's SetPach it will patch other stuff eventhought there are probably options to set it up. But is there other more convenient way of doing this?

The goal is to overcome the 8Gb limit of the 3.1 scsi.device.
I have 3.9 CD but don't want to install it for now.

I know using an NSD compliant substitution device, like IDE-Fix solves the problem. But IDE fix requires a key and is no longer for sale.

Simply using 3.9´s FFS won't overcome the 8Gb limit of the old scsi.device.. ..
Damn I 'm becoming a pro in this myself 8-)

I prefer not to install 3.9 for now.

By the way, I wrotte all the above cause I knw someone would be suggesting it anyway....
So anyone managed to do it or not?

[Thomas]

There is a free reg number for IDEfix on www.amigarealm.com (drivers / IDE / Power Computing).

Bye,
Thomas

[Jose]

Cheers Thomas!!

[Oli_hd]

Hi,

20gb hd on standard ide port    Has anyone managed to do that?

Yep, PFS3, great filesystem, supports massive harddrives (1 TB?)
and its also much more stable than FFS

scsi.device is in rom and it's patched by 3.9's SetPatch on boot up. If I use 3.9's SetPach it will patch other stuff eventhought there are probably options to set it up. But is there other more convenient way of doing this?

Yep, PFS accesses the drive directly, bypassing the SCSI.device (I think, its called direct SCSI)

I prefer not to install 3.9 for now.

PFS3 supports OS2.04 and above I think, I know for sure it supports 3.1

hope that helps

[Thomas]

Please don't talk nonsense. PFS3 does not bypass scsi.device.

PFS3 uses either TD64 or HD_SCSICMD. The former does not work on the standard IDE driver and the latter has a 8GB limit bug on the A1200.

So you *need* either OS3.5/3.9 or IDEfix to overcome the 4GB/8GB limit.

IDEfix supports everything, TD64, NSD64 and SCSI-Direct (HD_SCSICMD). OS3.9 only supports NSD64 and SCSI-Direct, so you have to use PFS3ds on OS3.9.

So IDEfix is always a good choice, even with OS3.9 and PFS3.

Bye,
Thomas