| From: | Colin Wenzel |
| Date: | 15 May 2000 at 03:25:26 |
| Subject: | Re: Block size |
On 14-May-00, James Hays wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> All this talk about Maxtransfer, Mask, Block size, etcetera, has
> caused me to want to change the block size of my 20gig hard drive (it
> has always been slow, and I thought this might help). Okay, so here's
> the problem, I'm afraid to undertake such a thing because I had so
> much trouble preparing this drive the first time. The reason for this
> is a perfect catch 22, I change the hard drive, try to boot from my
> Syjet, syjet won't boot because the ROM update immediatly causes the
> system to try to boot the hard drive, remove ROM update from the
> Syjet, and then I don't have access to the full size of the drive.
> Is there some easy way around this that I'm missing?
>
> Take care.
Easy, just leave the boot partition alone, do it on the other ones,
but remember, changing the block size will loose the data,
so back up first...
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Colin Wenzel. Australia.
EMAIL: mailto:colstv@hotkey.net.au
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AMIGA: 4000T, 68060/50, 150Mb RAM,
OS 3.5, EGS Spectrum.
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