Larger Hard Drives with WB 3.1

[slippymadfrog]

I need to use a 8 gb hard drive (full capacity) with Workbench 3.1?  Is there a special utility?

Dave

[chris]

You need a 64-bit filesystem and a 64-bit device driver.

The easiest way to achieve this would be to purchase OS3.5 or 3.9.  Otherwise, you can probably do it on the cheap by searching Aminet for TD64 and SFS (and I think you need NSDPatch as well).  The old v43 public beta 64-bit scsi.device and FFS are no longer available AFAIK.

Chris

[KennyR]

IDEfix is also a possibility.

[x56h34]

4xEIDE'99 by Elbox will split that large hard drive into smaller chunks, convincing the controller that you are dealing with several 4GB hard drives.

[Thomas]

slippymadfrog wrote:
I need to use a 8 gb hard drive (full capacity) with Workbench 3.1?  Is there a special utility?

Dave

Try this: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hjohn/SFS184.lha
It allows you to use up to 8GB without any additional patch.
Be warned: later versions of SFS have lost this feature (SCSI-Direct).

If you own PFS you can use PFSds for the same purpose.

To use the 64bit commands mentioned above you need both, a new file system (SFS any version, PFS, or FastFileSystem V43+) and a 64bit-cappable IDE driver (IDEfix or OS3.5+). Also you have to make sure that both use the same command set, there are differences (NSD64 vs. TD64).

Get http://www.aminet.net/aminet.cgi?string=check4gb to check if everything is set up correctly.

Bye,
Thomas

[slippymadfrog]

Thank you all.

Dave