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keropi · 03 February 2007, 02:22

I decided "sacrifice" a part of my 40GB amiga HD, as a dedicated goldengate partition... so I made DH4 , a 1.9GB partition. The goldengate bios-setup like thingie finds it at the correct size (1980MB) but fdisk of both MS-DOS 6.22 and PC-DOS 7.1 (IBM flavor) find it as 370MB and makes it a 370MB c: drive! installing dos there works, but where is the rest 1,6GB? I made it intentionally under 2GB so I don't pass the FAT16 2GB limit...
why is that? GoldenGate "BIOS" reports the correct size!
I even tried to split it to 2 partitions, c: and d: , 1GB and 980MB.... it appeard on FDISK as 15 nad 40? MB???! tottaly worng!
I am using OS3,9 with the default FFS, and a csppc, the goldengate works OK with it...
any info?

03 February 2007, 02:22	#1
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	Vortex GoldenGate: selecting amiga partition as C: , FDISK reports wrong size! I decided "sacrifice" a part of my 40GB amiga HD, as a dedicated goldengate partition... so I made DH4 , a 1.9GB partition. The goldengate bios-setup like thingie finds it at the correct size (1980MB) but fdisk of both MS-DOS 6.22 and PC-DOS 7.1 (IBM flavor) find it as 370MB and makes it a 370MB c: drive! installing dos there works, but where is the rest 1,6GB? I made it intentionally under 2GB so I don't pass the FAT16 2GB limit... why is that? GoldenGate "BIOS" reports the correct size! I even tried to split it to 2 partitions, c: and d: , 1GB and 980MB.... it appeard on FDISK as 15 nad 40? MB???! tottaly worng! I am using OS3,9 with the default FFS, and a csppc, the goldengate works OK with it... any info?