Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!imagine!pawl10.pawl.rpi.edu!jesup From: jesup@pawl10.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Now what? (Hard Disk woes.) Message-ID: <507@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Date: 10 Mar 88 07:32:10 GMT References: <7434@oberon.USC.EDU> <3437@cbmvax.UUCP> <7512@oberon.USC.EDU> Sender: news@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU Reply-To: beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab - Troy, NY Lines: 24 In article <7512@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >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? They did fix the bitmap limit in 1.2. Unfortunately, the addition of the archive bit caused writes to the root directory to trash the pointer to bitmaps beyond 26. So for 1.2 SFS the limit remains. The FFS under 1.3 will support 2 gig disks (this is verified). The SFS under 1.3 will still have the 54 meg problem, as it is in ROM. I suspect that it will be fixed in 1.4, when they redo the ROMs. // Randell Jesup Lunge Software Development // Dedicated Amiga Programmer 13 Frear Ave, Troy, NY 12180 \\// beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP (518) 272-2942 \/ (uunet!steinmetz!beowulf!lunge!jesup) BIX: rjesup (-: The Few, The Proud, The Architects of the RPM40 40MIPS CMOS Micro :-)