Author: Smeg (webcacheb02a.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: 04-04-2003 04:01
Get any 2.5" IDE drive u like.
I found a 1.2GB Western Digital IDE for a tenner, works perfectly. I did have it as a single 1gb partition, but later changed it to 2x 600mb. I think the maximum partition size under tos 4 is 2gb, but that may be dos compatibility mode, I cant remember. I dont know what the maximum size is that the falcon/hddriver will support but its likely to be bigger than you will ever realistically need, and if not then you can always put 2x 2.5" IDE drives inside or even get an adapter and run a 3.5" disk.
BTW FYI, I also have an external 1GB JAZ SCSI disk attached to my Falcon and my PC at the same time, both machines can read and write on the disk simultaneously (great for editing AIF files...). The drive has one single partition, and is set to TOS+DOS compatibility.
HDDriver is the best scsi software around, but its commercial so costs money (but it is still supported). If you boot this off floppy and run the HDDRUTIL.prg you can low level format (not recommended with IDE) and then partition your drive. You dont format the partitions like you do with windows/linux, you just make the partition then tell hddriver to put the boot block on the drive and your done.
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