Amiga Hardrive size

[Gordon]

Hi guys, i want to buy a 8b hard drive but im sure i read somewhere amiga wont recognise. what is the biggest it will accept?

[davideo]

That depends on the Amiga, operating system and file system you want to use it on

I've got a 40GB HD on my 4000D OS3.9+BB1+BB2

Dave G

Have a look at this thread http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=32256

[Jope]

It's not about recognition, but how much of it you can use. If you don't want to know anything else, keep all the partitions within the first 4GB of the drive and you'll be fine.

[amigamaniac]

Originally Posted by gordonbennett

Hi guys, i want to buy a 8b hard drive but im sure i read somewhere amiga wont recognise. what is the biggest it will accept?

About 12 inches I would think

[squidbass]

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My miggy's a bit of a whore she can take a 72Gb HD (running 3.1) - all the way!

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[Gordon]

so without doing anything special, can i have 4 x 2gb partitions? without any problems?

[thomas]

No, you can have 2 x 1.99 GB partitions without any problems. If you make 4 x 2GB you'll definitely get problems.

[Gordon]

thanks mate.

and thanks to everyone else for your help.

[Bloodwych]

Read that link posted - you can use the full 8GB with either SFS 1.84 or patching the Workbench FFS with TD64/direct-scsi. That is without replacing the scsi.device, so you really don't have to do anything difficult, just use a different filesystem in HDtoolbox and stick to the rules (first partition in the 4GB barrier, use quick format, make sure disk utils support large disks if not don't use them on partitons past 4GB).

Even using more than 8GB isn't hard. Support will be included in the next ClassicWB.

Thomas helped me out here too: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=49027

Or you can just stick to using the first 4GB as mentioned above. It's still a lot of space for an Amiga.

[Gordon]

Thanks Bloodwych. I just got a Sandisk 4gb extrene III and its not regonising as a disk when reading definitions. you can still use it but it cuases problems when trying to run WHD LOAD GAMES. I did 3 partitions 800mb, and 2x1600mb. i dont know what to do.

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[thomas]

its not regonising as a disk when reading definitions

This has been discussed a thousand times already. Search the other threads about using CF cards as harddrive in the Amiga. It's about the CF card identifying itself as removable device rather than fixed disk. There are PC DOS utilities to change this flag for some brands of CF cards.