| From: | Jonas Thorell |
| Date: | 17 May 2000 at 00:49:41 |
| Subject: | RE: IDE possibilites |
Kisa 2o0o wrote:
>--->Well, maybe this will be a bit offtopic,
>but I hope somebody have an experience:
>Now there is alot of cheap CD writers for IDE
>interface. And I'm thinking to buy one - because
>I saw there is a driver for atapi CD-R's in MakeCD.
>But will it work ?
Yes. I've done that. Works like a treat. An Acer
Atapi CD-RW.
>Since the transfer liitation on the
>IDE bus ? I have an IDE HD so I wonder if IDE CD-R will
>work I mean for writing of cause =) I'm affraid it will
>burn out the CDs because of slow transfers =(
Depends. If there's a lot of small files the risk of
a buffer underrun increases but that can be circumvented
in two ways:
1. Make a ISO-image on the harddisk first.
2. Use really, really large buffers.
> And the second question is about big HD's (again IDE).
>I noticed that there is some problems to setup a drive
>bigger then 8Gb on PC (MSDOS/WIN).
No there isn't. Only a problem _booting_ from a partition
larger than 8 gig (NT 4, problem solved with Windows2000).
The other Microsoft-OS:es I stay well clear off.
>It requers a special preparation proggys to setup.
Yep. Called Fdisk. As standard as it gets.
>And how this can be done on Amiga ?
Hdtoolbox.
>Now I know with a scsi.device patch and TRD64 we can ovveride the
>4Gb limit..But is it also mean that I will be able to use (for
>example 20 Gb HD) ?
Yes. I haven't tried 20 Gig but 10 without a hitch. Now, I didn't
use that one as my bootdisk but otherwise I know it works (one
partition).
This I don't know but I suspect the boot-partition must be on
the first 4 gig. That 10 gig was in my A3000. In my A1200
there is a 8 gig one. I have only that one installed but
the workbench-partition is just 200 megs or something.
I don't know how well the latest FFS handles this though.
I've used AFS and PFS for so long I didn't even bother trying
the FFS-version that ships with 3.5.
Besides, if we couldn't use 10/20/30 gig or whatever - what's the
point in overriding that old limit?
/Jonas
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