Author: Damion (dsl213-218-231-140.as15444.net)
Date: 03-14-2007 15:50
Been doing a lot of experiments recently.
I have a pair of 4GB SCSI Drives ( Got some 9 and 18GB Drives spare for further ridiculous tests ) , and a handfull of CF Cards and CF to IDE Adapters.
I have been ( as some know ) failing to get Magic to access drives over 1GB?? - This has now been fixed as I realised that I have been using v6.0 and 6.1 / 6.2 are ok with FAT32... Under Magic I am even happy to say that 4GB partitions are fine ( If the first read is a tad slow ).
Im therefore happy to report that my Falcon can read and write to partitions of up to 2GB under standard TOS 4
It is also happy to read any size partition on the 4GB up to 4GB under Magic but not TOS... I will be trying larger SCSI Drives later on, but as the partitions come up as FAT32, I dare say that they will be able to work just fine too!
Anyway, my first problem that I have come up against, is that the first parttiion on my 4GB Drive always comes up as FAT32 and therefore TOS cannot see it?
I have tried a number of things, Mainly that particular HD, I want to keep as a TOS compatible 2GB+2GB, but no matter how small I try to make the first partition, and no matter whether I force it to be GEM, BMG, or XGM , LNX, MNX or whatever, HDDriver keeps setting it to FAT32?
I think I will probably chuck it into a PC and kill of the whole thing and re-do it on the Atari in the hope that it does finally kill off the idea of it being FAT32? - This only came up AFTER I did it as a full 4GB and before that, it was ok, so the drive may be having an issue or two I dont know, but I very much doubt it... Very much doubt it indeed.
Any clues?
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