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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- Subject: Re: can the amiga partition and format SCSI drives without locking up?
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- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:17:59 GMT
-
- >I'm trying to partition and format a friend's Amiga3000 (still one heck
- >of a system IMO) but am having problems. Termination is ok (i.e. last
- >drive is terminated and the resistors have power). SCSI ID's are ok
- >(existing drive is 0 and new drive is 1).
-
- >The drive is about 2775MB, is SCSI2, Seagate ST43400N.
-
- woo... nice drive :-)
-
- >The original drive is a 50MB SCSI Quantum.
-
- >Here is what I want to do:
- >- partition 50MB for backup NetBSD root
-
- should be no problem here...
-
- >- about 600MB for the Amiga FFS
-
- or here....
-
- >- 640MB for NetBSD (50MB root, 80MB swap, the rest for usr)
-
- or here....
-
- >- and the rest of the drive Amiga FFS
-
- fine.
-
- >Question:
- >- Does the Amiga have problems with large partitions?
-
- Not that I know of.
-
- >- Which of the above partitions should be marked 'bootable'?
-
- Which ever ones you want to boot off. The Amiga FFS one should be, but I
- don't really know that much about the BSD stuff... I assume you have a boot
- partition for it... maybe the Root one... and you would make that bootable
- too... you would need to decide which would be the defualt bootable one
- tho..
-
- >- Which should be "automounted"?
-
- Shouldn't they all?
-
- >This is really puzzling.
-
- not really, just ask around.
-
- >Thanks loads for your help.
-
- thats all right, I'm probably just wasting your time :-)
-
- >--
- >Daniel
-
- Finn
-
-