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- From: jeffsj@execpc.com (Jeffery S. Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Q: Formating 4.3G Quantum Atlas
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 22:53:55 GMT
- Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI
- Message-ID: <1387.6591T883T373@execpc.com>
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- On 16-Jan-96 13:36:55, Osma Ahvenlampi <Osma.Ahvenlampi@hut.fi> wrote:
- >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.
-
- There is also a PD device patch which partitions large drives so as to be
- accessible. AFS (and perhaps MuFS) also support larger drives.
-
- I can't recall the name of the PD patch, but it had "gig" in its name
- somewhere, and I saw it on aminet.
-
- <tsb>--
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