Vortex GoldenGate: selecting amiga partition as C: , FDISK reports wrong size!

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?

dambuster · 03 February 2007, 10:58

Try using fdisk from win98, it will have the full 16bit support for VFAT and Long file names (LFN).
I seem to remeber 370,420 and 540 MB capacities being limits but cant remember if it was bios, fat or hard drive related.

thomas · 03 February 2007, 11:17

Quote:

so I made DH4

Make sure to have this partition reside inside the first 4GB of the HDD. I am quite sure that the GoldenGate software is not able to look beyond the 4GB limit.

keropi · 03 February 2007, 11:35

actually the partions are the last of the 40GB hd I have...
still, I made 2 partitions of 446MB each... they come up in fdisk as 392 and 364 mb ....
will try a differend fdisk now...

keropi · 03 February 2007, 11:47

nop, win98 fdisk made no difference.

keropi · 03 February 2007, 11:50

@thomas:

the goldengate "bios" reports the sizes OK, even if the partition is 2GB or 400MB... fdisk screws it.... can it be that even if it sees the correct size, it still cannot use it correctly?

keropi · 03 February 2007, 20:13

I created the partitions on the first 4GB of the amiga HD.
the max partition size visible from both GoldenGate and FDISK is ~450MB...
2 partitions (C and D) of 446MB each, work perfect

alewis · 06 February 2007, 00:00

Stick a dedicated drive to the Goldengate. TRY to find an old <1GB drive, ideally a 500MB disk. Seriously, I doubt if the GG BIOS understands large disks... it predates a heck of a lot of barriers (and solutions).

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?

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03 February 2007, 10:58	#2
dambuster Zone Friend Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Dundee / Scotland Posts: 151	Try using fdisk from win98, it will have the full 16bit support for VFAT and Long file names (LFN). I seem to remeber 370,420 and 540 MB capacities being limits but cant remember if it was bios, fat or hard drive related.

03 February 2007, 11:35	#4
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	actually the partions are the last of the 40GB hd I have... still, I made 2 partitions of 446MB each... they come up in fdisk as 392 and 364 mb .... will try a differend fdisk now...

03 February 2007, 11:47	#5
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	nop, win98 fdisk made no difference.

03 February 2007, 11:50	#6
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	@thomas: the goldengate "bios" reports the sizes OK, even if the partition is 2GB or 400MB... fdisk screws it.... can it be that even if it sees the correct size, it still cannot use it correctly?

03 February 2007, 20:13	#7
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	I created the partitions on the first 4GB of the amiga HD. the max partition size visible from both GoldenGate and FDISK is ~450MB... 2 partitions (C and D) of 446MB each, work perfect

06 February 2007, 00:00	#8
alewis Monochrome and 8 bit Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Underbarrow, Gods Country Age: 57 Posts: 600	Stick a dedicated drive to the Goldengate. TRY to find an old <1GB drive, ideally a 500MB disk. Seriously, I doubt if the GG BIOS understands large disks... it predates a heck of a lot of barriers (and solutions).

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