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Offline Franko

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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #29 on: January 03, 2011, 09:18:57 PM »
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That's big nonsense IMHO.

1. the system benefits most if the boot partition has the fastest file system

2. the system partition can be recreated at any time from scratch because everything on the system partition is also contained on installation floppy disks and CDs.

The partitions with your creative work like artwork, self-made music, videos, saved games, documents, source codes etc. are the important ones which need to be kept safe and backed up regularly. The system partition is the least important part of a hard drive.

3. the system partition does not change very much. You can make a backup once after installation and if the partition dies, you can restore that one old backup and have everything back quickly. Just make sure that you've got a boot flopppy with all software needed to access the backup and the HDD.

Well your entitled to your opinion but in my case its totally wrong... :)

1. FFS system is actually faster than SFS on my system partition mainly due to the fact the FFS accesses the thousands of small icon .info files faster than SFS can... :)

2. As for the system partition being easy to re-create easily at any time, wrong again in my case. As I use the System Partition for all of my program/executable files as well as the system stuff. All other partitions are used for data and nothing more... :)

3. Wrong again... my system partition is constantly changing as I write more progs or install new utils... :)

SFS is quite simply the best alternative file system for the Amiga user who requires access to large HDs and single file sizes greater than 4GBs. It may not be the fastest filesystem around but for reliability and almost unlimited large storage, it can't be beat... :)

I can say this with complete confidence as I've spent decades testing and benchmarking all of my various Amigas to get the best possible speed out of them. I would go as far as to say there won't be many folk out there with an Amiga set up quite like mine as it's is very customised and contains a lot of software & patches I have written myself that no one else has as I never released them... :)


@ Selles

Odd to call it ego because some of us have a lot of data & stuff on our HDs, If you can get by on 2GB of storage then good for you... :)

My 2 500GB HDs are both over 90% full of both Amiga & Non Amiga data not to mention all my other HDs which are almost full as well... :)

It's nothing to do with ego it's quite simply down to 25 years of collecting and gathering all sorts of stuff which need somewhere to be stored and have easy access to... :)
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #30 on: January 03, 2011, 10:39:52 PM »
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definitely don't support booting anything beyond the first bit of a drive (how far? 2 gigs? 4 gigs? 8 gigs? 128 gigs?) While AmigaOS can't use space beyond 128 gigs on the IDE bus (I've tried)


You need to update your scsi.device with latest aminet patches from Chris Hodges & company
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #31 on: January 03, 2011, 10:45:32 PM »
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Why do you guys need such large hard drives on an Amiga computer?


Ham8 pr0n movies.


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I would go as far as to say there won't be many folk out there with an Amiga set up quite like mine as it's is very customised and contains a lot of software & patches I have written myself that no one else has as I never released them...


I bet you and Cosmos have fun patching stuff but be gentle with us and share some bits ;-)
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #32 on: January 03, 2011, 11:31:06 PM »
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I bet you and Cosmos have fun patching stuff but be gentle with us and share some bits ;-)

Id love to share my own hacked/rewritten version of the FastATA driver but as it's still owned by Elbox and not PD or freeware then sorry but I can't... :(
(I did email Elbox a long time ago about it, but never received any reply...:()

Many folk have sent me PMs asking for my various patches that I have written but unfortunately they were written for my own particular Amigas hardware & software set up and unless you have a system identical to mine they most likely won't work... :(
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #33 on: January 04, 2011, 01:15:00 AM »
I wonder if we can set up a bounty for Franko to write driver and such for us, since it is obvious that you know a few things about hardware and programming?
New scsi.device maybe???? :D
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #34 on: January 04, 2011, 01:30:22 AM »
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I wonder if we can set up a bounty for Franko to write driver and such for us, since it is obvious that you know a few things about hardware and programming?
New scsi.device maybe???? :D

Gawd no... money's the last thing I need... :lol:

Often thought about it and actually started it, that's where the problem lies, I start to code something and think "hey that's a neat piece of code" then next thing I've started to use that bit of code to write something else altogether... :)

Or I disassemble something like the FastATA Driver, make it better and then can't share it with others cos it's still copyright and I'm the only one getting to use it... :(

Must have several hundred bits of software that I never got round to finishing... :)
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #35 on: January 04, 2011, 01:34:28 AM »
awwwwwwww dang it!!
well then what about a scsi.device just for me ( promise not to give it to anyone.. :D (insert evil smile too).. )
That reminds me does anyone have the keyboard short cut for the emotes here???? (i meant for this site....... :P)
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #36 on: January 05, 2011, 06:45:47 PM »
I jumped through all kinds of hoops two years ago and I can't get my A2000 or A1200 to use more than 4 gig. My A2000 uses a GVP 040 with SCSI, and my A1200 uses IDE.
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #37 on: January 05, 2011, 10:45:51 PM »
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I jumped through all kinds of hoops two years ago and I can't get my A2000 or A1200 to use more than 4 gig. My A2000 uses a GVP 040 with SCSI, and my A1200 uses IDE.


You have to manually enter meaningful cylinders, sectors per track, tracks per cylinder, and sectors per cylinder numbers into HDToolBox yourself most of the time.

Franko: Perhaps you'd be willing to contribute a tiny bit of your technical experience to help get the FastATA supported under NetBSD?
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-amiga/2011/01/03/msg007507.html
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #38 on: January 05, 2011, 10:52:48 PM »
QUOTE=johnklos;604130]You have to manually enter meaningful cylinders, sectors per track, tracks per cylinder, and sectors per cylinder numbers into HDToolBox yourself most of the time.

Franko: Perhaps you'd be willing to contribute a tiny bit of your technical experience to help get the FastATA supported under NetBSD?
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-amiga/2011/01/03/msg007507.html[/QUOTE]

I'd be happy to help if I can but don't have a clue what NetBSD is... :(
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #39 on: January 05, 2011, 11:20:01 PM »
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Or I disassemble something like the FastATA Driver, make it better and then can't share it with others cos it's still copyright and I'm the only one getting to use it... :(


Elbox never cared much about copyrights, licenses and other legalities. Why must we?
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #40 on: January 05, 2011, 11:21:42 PM »
franko

You talk about "rewritting" software yet you dont know what NetBSD is????

You have no need of money?

I'd love to see some screenshots of your modded drivers... or some code sample
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #41 on: January 05, 2011, 11:31:21 PM »
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franko

You talk about "rewritting" software yet you dont know what NetBSD is????

You have no need of money?

I'd love to see some screenshots of your modded drivers... or some code sample

Well with a stupid comment like that YOUR never gonna find out...:p

Why fcuk should me not knowing what NetBSD is have anything to do with me re-writing or coding software ???

And yes Im very well off thank you, a lack of hard cash has never been a problem for me and most likely never will be... :)

So with an attitude like yours your gonna be the last to know, plenty of other folk in my short time here can testify to my coding and knowledge of the Amiga,

As for you I have no need to prove anything to you, so toddle off matey... :p
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #42 on: January 05, 2011, 11:36:16 PM »
Ehhh... sorry if I'm not very friendly in this thread, but... who is the one that is going to put those 2Tb in his Miggy? (Just to know :))
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #43 on: January 06, 2011, 12:00:14 AM »
I would If i can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but right now having probs just get 40GB to work fully all the time with my A1200, may have to end up playing with the cylinders or maybe have about 9 <4GB drives.....
which reminds me (off topic) but when i do build my A4000 if have a GVP 4060 with scsi and a FASTATA IV (zorro III) which would be better to use? Also have indivision and Deneb for that A4000
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Re: Max hard drive size?
« Reply #44 from previous page: January 06, 2011, 12:16:06 AM »
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I would If i can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but right now having probs just get 40GB to work fully all the time with my A1200, may have to end up playing with the cylinders or maybe have about 9 <4GB drives.....
which reminds me (off topic) but when i do build my A4000 if have a GVP 4060 with scsi and a FASTATA IV (zorro III) which would be better to use? Also have indivision and Deneb for that A4000

Me too... :)

Two 2TB HDs should be enough to last me till my sell buy date... :)

(PM sent about your HD probs... :))
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