| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 25 Sep 2001 at 23:36:52 |
| Subject: | Re: [amigactive] 40Gig hard disk |
Oliver Roberts said,
> I would strongly advise against using partition sizes bigger than 4Gb in
> size with PFS3 (that's available file space, so about 4.4Gb-ish in
> HDToolBox). Why? Well, I located a bug in PFS3 a while back, which makes
> it impossible to format a partition bigger than 4Gb when using debug tools -
> these show illegal read/writes to memory. Sure, there are usually no such
> problems without using debug tools, and formats work ok, but I find it highly
> suspicious that the format would have involved reading random data from
> memory that it is not supposed to.
I've recently formatted some partitions >4GB, with CyberGuard running,
and not had any hits. The 6GB partition has been filled and emptied a
couple of times in the past few weeks with no apparent problems. This is
on an IDE drive connected ot the stock IDE port, so I had to use the
direct SCSI version. With an 18GB drive connected ot my CSPPC I used the
normal version and still ran 4 and 6GB partitions OK.
Cheers
Neil
Middle-age - because your age starts to show at your middle.
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