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From: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Now what?  (Hard Disk woes.)
Message-ID: <3457@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 19:20:13 GMT
References: <oWA4lWy00V4E89s0OA@andrew.cmu.edu> <7434@oberon.USC.EDU> <3437@cbmvax.UUCP> <7512@oberon.USC.EDU>
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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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?
>
>-- Marco

OK, the 54 Megabyte limit for hard disk partitions is true for the following:-

	1.2	Slow File System
	1.3	Slow File System

The 54 Megabyte limit is/will be removed from the following:-

	1.3	Fast File System
	1.4	Fast File System
	1.4	Slow File System

Don't ask me for dates on 1.4 because I don't have the foggiest idea and even
if I did, I wouldn't be able to tell you anyway.  1.3 is in gamma testing now.

	Steve