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- From: kenneth@norconnect.no (Kenneth C. Nilsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: Is an A500 of any use?
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 17:22:40 +0100
- Organization: NorConnect Internet Services AS
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- DS>> if you want more than this there are 3rd party filesystems that are
- DS>> supposed to increase this limit.
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- DS>> The well publicsed limit of 540M on PCs is only due to the PC BIOS, it's
- DS>> got nothing to do with the IDE standard, don't worry about it; it doesn't
- DS>> apply to Amigas.
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- K> Well there IS a limit. The largest partition on an SCSI-HD has to be
- K> 540MB.
- K> (I'm using WB 2.1 on an A500+ and a 1GB HD).
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- You should be able to make one 2 GB partition with FFS.
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- Sincerly,
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