| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 26 Sep 2001 at 09:39:52 |
| Subject: | Re: [amigactive] 40Gig hard disk |
Oliver Roberts said,
> Hi Neil,
>> I've recently formatted some partitions >4GB, with CyberGuard running,
>> and not had any hits. The 6GB partition has been filled and emptied a
> Ok... I may have been skimping on information there - I had mungwall
> and some other debug stuff running too.
Just CyberGuard and SegTracker here.
>> 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.
> Strange. The problems I had were with an IDE drive - I tried every
> possible software combination (e.g. direct SCSI with the OS3.9
> scsi.device, direct+normal with the idefix scsi.device, etc) and the result
> was always the same. I even tried it after booting with no
> startup-sequence. I have also heard from others who have had problems
> getting >4Gb PFS3 partitions formatted. All I know for sure is that the
> hits definitely came from within the PFS3 code.
I found I had to remove the "skipromupdates scsi.device" from SetPatch
to get it to recognise partitions over 8GB. Otherwise I could prep and
format them, but they disappeared after a reboot. Not the thing you want
to discover after you've just restored 4GB of data to the partition :(
I don't think I've *ever* had a hit from PFS. The odd disk error of
course, that is usually fixed by a reboot. Using SCSIMounter to unmount
and remount the driver would probably do the same, but I'm lazy and
rebooting is easier :)
Cheers
Neil
Humpty Dumpty DOS - Just a shell of himself.
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