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- From: ortmann@plains.nodak.edu (Daniel Ortmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: can the amiga partition and format SCSI drives without locking up?
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 15:45:25 -0500
- Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN)
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- In article <paul.4g3w@serena.iaehv.nl>,
- Paul Kolenbrander <paul@serena.iaehv.nl> wrote:
- >On Wed, 10 Apr 96, Finn Higgins typed the following line(s):
- >
- >> >Question:
- >> >- Does the Amiga have problems with large partitions?
- >> Not that I know of.
- >
- >It does. There is a 2 GIG limit. It has to do with HDToolbox.
- >There was a thread about it a ways back. You can use say a
- >4GIG drive as long as you make suer none of the partitions
- >are larger than 2 GIG.
-
- HDToolBox shows the "size" of the drive to be a negative number. Is this
- the problem to which you refer? (See also the question below.)
-
- I'm able to format (apparently) any partition that lies below the 2GB
- limit. But even with small partitions (all less than 1GB) format locks
- up the system if I try to format partitions later in the disk.
-
- After the lockups I have to do a complete low-level format using my NT
- Workstation system in order to get the Amiga to not lockup while booting.
- Then I get to try again.
-
- Someone mentioned in e-mail a better hard drive tool than HDToolBox but
- I don't recall which? What is the best (free) tool around, and where?
-
- Thanks,
-
- --
- Daniel
-