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- From: Osma.Ahvenlampi@hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Q: Formating 4.3G Quantum Atlas
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 13:36:55 +0200
- Organization: What, me, organised?
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- In-reply-to: allas@lyseo.otol.fi's message of 13 Jan 1996 00:10:45 GMT
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- In article <4d6ta5$7j8@pan.otol.fi> allas@lyseo.otol.fi (Jari Ketola) writes:
- > I just bought an 4.3G Quantum Atlas SCSI-2 harddisk,
- > and would like to know if there's something I should
- > know about formating the disk before doing it.
- > Ie. should I use some weird settings in HDToolBox,
- > use small partitions etc.
-
- Um, such as that it won't work?
-
- Amiga filesystems support partitions of up to 2GB. The device
- interface supports drives up to 4GB. Make sure you won't go a byte
- above that (in fact, go a bit short of that, leave some space at the
- end of the drive unused), or you will experience a corrupt drive.. Not
- just a screwed up filesystem, but if you access data above 4GB, it
- will actually overwrite the RDB on the drive and you will lose the
- partition information.
-
- "4.3GB" translates to 4GB in base 2.
- --
- foo
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