English Amiga Board - View Single Post - Strange problem with ClassicWB 3.9 on SFS or PFS boot partition

Bloodwych · 19 April 2012, 23:57

Just thought I'd chip in some extra info, some already covered above. Thanks for all your help to people by the way mfilos, much appreciated. :)

OS3.5 and 3.9 have large hard drive support built-in and a newer fast file system supporting >4GB. They do that with the double boot updating the ROM on cold boot. That's why I don't add LoadModule to those packs, but if people want to use another hard drive scsi.device driver provided then they are welcome too. I think I provide them all in the "MyFiles/Install" drawer, including alternative filesystems supporting large hard drives. You don't need both, so choose one method and disable the other in the Startup-Sequence. Depends what works best for your hardware setup.

More info here: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=32256

The lower ClassicWB packs all have LoadModule added to essentially do what OS35 and 39 already do by default - update the scsi.device driver to support >4GB drives and file systems. This is done by copying an scsi.device to the DH0:Devs drawer, as shown on the tutorial webpage:

http://classicwb.abime.net/classicweb/tutorials.htm

In both Workbenches, you can actually have up to 8GB support using "direct-scsi" without updating the ROM and using the double boot; the A1200 IDE controller can access up to 8GB using this method - more explained in the above thread (Solutions 2 and 3)

19 April 2012, 23:57	#15
Bloodwych Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I'm behind you! Posts: 3,763	Just thought I'd chip in some extra info, some already covered above. Thanks for all your help to people by the way mfilos, much appreciated. :) OS3.5 and 3.9 have large hard drive support built-in and a newer fast file system supporting >4GB. They do that with the double boot updating the ROM on cold boot. That's why I don't add LoadModule to those packs, but if people want to use another hard drive scsi.device driver provided then they are welcome too. I think I provide them all in the "MyFiles/Install" drawer, including alternative filesystems supporting large hard drives. You don't need both, so choose one method and disable the other in the Startup-Sequence. Depends what works best for your hardware setup. More info here: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=32256 The lower ClassicWB packs all have LoadModule added to essentially do what OS35 and 39 already do by default - update the scsi.device driver to support >4GB drives and file systems. This is done by copying an scsi.device to the DH0:Devs drawer, as shown on the tutorial webpage: http://classicwb.abime.net/classicweb/tutorials.htm In both Workbenches, you can actually have up to 8GB support using "direct-scsi" without updating the ROM and using the double boot; the A1200 IDE controller can access up to 8GB using this method - more explained in the above thread (Solutions 2 and 3)