>On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Neil A. Carson wrote:
>
>> Timothy Coltman wrote:
>> 
>> > Having randomly been given 100UKP for getting a degree, I'm looking 
to
>> > buy a new hard-disc as my crappy old Connor 1032Mb is too slow and 
I'm
>> > running out of room for all the NetBSD delights I have. What is the
>> > biggest size hard-disc that NetBSD arm/32 supports? I'm thinking 
about a
>> > 5.1Gb Quantum EX.
>> 
>> I'd guess that the maximum size is probably around two terrabytes. 
What
>> RiscOS will support and handle is probably more the question.
>Hmm 64bits addresses more that take doesn't it ?
>Actaully will RiscOS have a problem with it ? Certain putting filecore 
on
>it may be more of a problem. If it is not the only disk on the system 
then
>it does not even need to be configured under RiscOS.
>
>Cheers,
>				Mark
>
>
>
Hurrah. What's all this about filecore problems? I know there's a 
ADFSBuffers problem with >2Gb discs but (a) I use Simtec's IDE card and 
(b) can't it be fixed with a ROMPatch? Will I still get the problem? I'm 
going to have a <1Gb partition at the start of the disc to store all the 
exciting downloads I've got. I've already got another slow 850mb HD as 
my primary device, so I can't imagine there being any problems... (hopes 
:-))

Cheers,
tim


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