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Offline tonyvdbTopic starter

9gb SCSI drive only shows 2 partitions?
« on: February 28, 2015, 05:46:05 PM »
so how come in OS3.9 when I set up my SCSI Quantum Atlas 9.2gb drive with all 6 partitions keeping them under 2gb each and I save that configuration after a reboot only the first two partitions show up on the workbench?
Im using SFS as the file system
Amiga 2000HD Indivision ECS
Amiga 4000D towerised OS 3.1 and 3.9 on CF cards
Indivision AGA, Mediator 4000
Video Toaster 4000 Flyer v4.3 Millenium.
202gig of video drive space & 5gig audio.
 

Offline Thomas

Re: 9gb SCSI drive only shows 2 partitions?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2015, 06:14:25 PM »
Partition size does not matter. The 4 GB limit applies to the hard drive. As it seems your controller does neither support OS 3.9's NSD nor the more common TD64.

Check if devs:nsdpatch.cfg contains an entry for your controller. Or use a file system which supports direct-SCSI, for example pfs3_aio.

Offline tonyvdbTopic starter

Re: 9gb SCSI drive only shows 2 partitions?
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2015, 06:25:09 PM »
Ok, so I should just instal the drive and stay below the 4gb no matter what just to be safe?
4096mb?
Amiga 2000HD Indivision ECS
Amiga 4000D towerised OS 3.1 and 3.9 on CF cards
Indivision AGA, Mediator 4000
Video Toaster 4000 Flyer v4.3 Millenium.
202gig of video drive space & 5gig audio.
 

Offline Thomas

Re: 9gb SCSI drive only shows 2 partitions?
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2015, 06:35:21 PM »
That's the easy soluition. But you could as well try to get >4gb support working with your controller.

If you'd share what controller it is, one could give you better advice.

Offline tonyvdbTopic starter

Re: 9gb SCSI drive only shows 2 partitions?
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2015, 06:39:18 PM »
Its a GVP A4008 with the 8mb of ram installed
Amiga 2000HD Indivision ECS
Amiga 4000D towerised OS 3.1 and 3.9 on CF cards
Indivision AGA, Mediator 4000
Video Toaster 4000 Flyer v4.3 Millenium.
202gig of video drive space & 5gig audio.
 

Offline Thomas

Re: 9gb SCSI drive only shows 2 partitions?
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2015, 07:09:08 PM »
Like I said above: edit devs:nsdpatch.cfg and remove the comment sign (#) before the line with gvpscsi.device. Then reboot and see if the additional partitions appear.