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Slayer · 04 September 2006, 01:59

I'm pondering over buying this brand new product (as in new and unopened)

In the promotional text however something kind of bothered me and wondered if someone through use or other means can shine some more light on it... first the text:

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A Zorro III only IDE card which has two independant IDE connectors and supports drives up to PIO MODE 4 for a theoretical maxmum transfer rate of 16.6MB/sec. Also has support for drives larger than 4GB by fooling the system into thinking that a drive larger than 4GB is acutally two or more separate drives. This card is usually supplied with Allegro filing system and is currently the only known card capable of reading UDF DVD discs.
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the Q is... can this 4gb fooling implementation be disabled? I don't want heaps of 4 gb partitions!

I have a 120gb and 60gb attached to the a4000 ide and wouldn't mind attaching a few more... namely the dvdrw

and anything else I should be aware of? I doubt I'll buy the card if I can't disable this quirk in the board...

perhaps it only activates outside wb 3.9 bb2 ?

04 September 2006, 01:59	#1
Slayer Amiga Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: New Zealand Age: 56 Posts: 695	Power Flyer 4000 Gold I'm pondering over buying this brand new product (as in new and unopened) In the promotional text however something kind of bothered me and wondered if someone through use or other means can shine some more light on it... first the text: -----> A Zorro III only IDE card which has two independant IDE connectors and supports drives up to PIO MODE 4 for a theoretical maxmum transfer rate of 16.6MB/sec. Also has support for drives larger than 4GB by fooling the system into thinking that a drive larger than 4GB is acutally two or more separate drives. This card is usually supplied with Allegro filing system and is currently the only known card capable of reading UDF DVD discs. <----- the Q is... can this 4gb fooling implementation be disabled? I don't want heaps of 4 gb partitions! I have a 120gb and 60gb attached to the a4000 ide and wouldn't mind attaching a few more... namely the dvdrw and anything else I should be aware of? I doubt I'll buy the card if I can't disable this quirk in the board... perhaps it only activates outside wb 3.9 bb2 ?