I recently bought a 4.3Gb hard drive for my Amiga. However, I
can not format it to the full 4Gb, is there anything I can do to
allow me to do this?
The problem is not with your hard drive but your Amiga. Like the
old MS-DOS machines, AmigaOS imposes a limit of 4Gb on one
partition. Whilst it is not as restrictive as the 512Mb limit it
can still be a pain. This is caused because AmigaDOS locates blocks
on a disk using a 32 bit address.
The easiest way of fixing this is simply to format hard drives
with partitions smaller than 2Gb. However, if you really want a 4Gb
partition there are a number of patches available, such as FFSTD64,
giga.device, or Amiga International's beta version of an updated
file system. The first two are available from Aminet whilst the AI update is available from
their website. Please remember
that these are only patches and may possibly cause some problems
with your current setup.
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