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hard drive size
Posted on 29-Jun-2016 16:40:30
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What is the biggest size hard drive OS3.5 / 3.9 can use ?
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Re: hard drive size
Posted on 29-Jun-2016 18:03:46
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If you are using the built in IDE connector of the you Amiga then I believe the limit to be 8GB, but even with this the boot partition must not be any more than 4GB as a ROM patch must be loaded in order to use larger partitions. |
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Re: hard drive size
Posted on 29-Jun-2016 18:09:32
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From what I can remember the SYS: partition shall not be any bigger than 2GB. Then the rest of the HD is up to what version of AOS 3.x you're using. The controller shouldn't matter. |
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Re: hard drive size
Posted on 29-Jun-2016 21:29:12
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Boot partition must be under 2GB and within the first 4gb of the drive.
If you use SFS for your partitions you can have partitions upto 127.999GB, I used to use 120GB. Check the 68k SFS specs for the biggest drive you can use, I wouldn't consider using anything over 750GB but to be honest on an OS3.x system 250GB is probably far more than you'll ever need. _________________
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Re: hard drive size
Posted on 29-Jun-2016 21:31:07
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OS3.9 can have 4GB boot partition, But why? 500MB should hold every OS patch available, more like 200MB. The rest just partition out for work, games, media, etc.
This works for SCSI, don't know IDE.
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Re: hard drive size
Posted on 29-Jun-2016 21:39:11
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Hi thanks for info. waiting for my buffered ide interface to turn up will then have a play with hard drive. OS is already done to a compact flash. JUst want hard drive for media file . music pics ect _________________
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Re: hard drive size
Posted on 29-Jun-2016 21:50:43
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Same thoughts that there was a limit of 4Gb partition depending on the filesystem but there should not be any size limit in whole.
PFS works great and all these SFS FFS JFX...
4GB is like space in Amigaworld.
Well for todays pictures it's different times.
GB is so cheap todays.
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Re: hard drive size
Posted on 29-Jun-2016 23:23:06
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I suppose it's possible to have the boot partition beyond the 2GB barrier once the kickstart 3.x roms from Amikit.. |
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Re: hard drive size
Posted on 30-Jun-2016 2:34:19
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New HD support started maybe with 3.5 but for sure 3.9. Otherwise the patch is needed to go up to 4GB. May or may not need a soft reset on cold start.
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Re: hard drive size
Posted on 30-Jun-2016 9:03:41
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There's a very comprehensive guide here that lists all the common devices, filesystems, patches and their limitations. Well worth setting as a bookmark, and maybe saving the table as an image for future reference.
Short answer though: 128GB is the largest hard drive size you can use with OS3.5/3.9 using the standard drivers and filesystems they come with. First partition needs to be fully within the first 4GB, the rest of the drive can be partitioned any way you like. _________________
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