Author: Frankie Doyle (host-83-166-13-34.hernonet.se)
Date: 12-17-2005 07:39
The Falc can handle big partitions, but on the cost of bigger clusters, at least if you use SCSITools. A 133MB partition will have 8 KB big clusters (16 sectors). I haven't made bigger partitions than 133MB but a 1GB partition would have some huge clusters I think.. But I believe HDDriver can format FAT32 disks, ie up to 4GB with 2 sectors/cluster?
even my STE boots perfectly well from a 133MB partition with HUSHI.sys, SCSITool's driver. But big partitions can also bring new problems, example; my STE's bootpartition recently ran out of root directory entries! The root catalog is limited to 255 entries, and with a "full charge" of bootstuff like Magic, Jinnee, NVDI and lots of other files, that may happen.. Remedy is to store as much as possible in folders instead of in the root directory. And then you can always salvage all files from the disk with Diamond Edge & DADE, when the root directory crashes (and it will!)
!! Don't even think about messing with harddrives on an Atari, without those super disktools !!
-You will understand what I mean, when you see them in work.. ;)
The reason for the Falcon messing up harddrives, is that the Falc's DMA bus is very noisy, and the remedy is to solder in some capacitors. You can find more info about this on Wezz Atari Hacks site, in the HD area.
Frankie
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