AmigaOS3.5 (439/967)

From:Joseph Duchatelet
Date:15 May 2000 at 14:36:29
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?
I am using a Syquest drive and noted something along these lines. I did call
my harddisk boot partition Sys and was not able from there to acces my Syquest
drive. I renamed the harddsik boot partition MySys and from then was able to
boot from my Syquest.

Joseph

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