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From: mlelstv@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Problems with Formatting 1224 contiguous cylinders on a Maxtor Drive
Message-ID: <590@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 20 Nov 89 15:34:09 GMT
References: <22108@gryphon.COM>
Organization: IMMD IV, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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rickf@pnet02.gryphon.com (Rick Flower) writes:

>Well, I just borrowed a large Maxtor drive from a friend and was in the
>process of formatting it and before it would finish, it would crash the entire
>system -- not to the GURU level though.. My MountList is below for those that
>are wondering.. Anyway, I was told that there is a POSSIBLE bug in AmigaDos
>that won't let you have a SINGLE volume that is greater than around 100Meg's
>or so...

There is a bug in the old filesystem that limits partition sizes to
52MBytes and a bug in FastFileSystem (fixed in WB1.3.2) that limits
partition size to nearly 300MBytes.

Now limits should be at the maximum (32bit) block number, i.e. 4 Gigabytes.

				Michael van Elst

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