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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Now what?  (Hard Disk woes.)
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Date: 9 Mar 88 02:31:13 GMT
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In article <3437@cbmvax.UUCP> steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) writes:
>In article <7434@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>>
>> [Lots of really useful stuff about drives deleted]
>>
>>The current hddisk.device driver supplied with the A2090 controller has a
>>built-in limit of about 54 Meg (or something close to that) PER PARTITION.
>>
>Nope!  The 54 Meg limit is imposed by the filesystem, not by the driver.


Thanks for correcting me, but I am still puzzled.

The reason I assumed that the problem was with the hddsisk.device was because 
of the following line that I quote from the dos 1.2 upgrade info that we 
(developers) got:

"More than 26 bitmaps are now supported, so that disks >54Mbytes are OK".

So, who is at fault?  The 1.2 SFS (Slow File System)? AmigaDos 1.2?
Also, will FFS and SFS under 1.3 support >54Mbytes disks?

-- Marco