Re: Amiga hardware issues

[Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:23:32PM -0700, admin%datazap.net@localhost wrote:
> 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.

Evil thought: Use a SCSI board and a SCSI-to-ATA translator board :-)

        -is