Re: Amiga hardware issues

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HI,


>> I just wanted to let you know that I have 2 - 250 gig hard drives in
>> my 2000 and I would like to put in ones that are larger. There is no
>> problem with large hard drives in Amiga's running NetBSD. So, a 30 gig
>> hard is not a big deal.

> With SCSI, you can use drives which are up to 2 terabytes in size,
> so this is no problem. However...

>> 1. Will my 30 gb IDE drive (or larger) will be fully supported ? In
>> Linux I partitioned it successfully, but in AmigaOS I've got weird
>> sizes of my HDD. I 'm confused, because install guide talks about
>> partitioning in AmigaOS, so I can't access whole 30 gb in Amiga OS =(.

> IDE on the Amiga doesn't support LBA-48, so it will only directly
> support drives up to 128 gigs. If you get a nice 160 gig hard drive
> (which is around 149 gigs of 2^30 bytes), you'll get to use a full 128
> gigs (of 2^30 bytes). A 120 gig drive typically gives you 110 real
> gigs.

Sorry about that. John is right. If you are using IDE on the Amiga then
that will limit the size of the drive you can use.

-Al