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|    Re: Atari Hard Drive Help!    |
|    07 Feb 10 20:57:56    |
      46307f28       From: guenther@dilgar.de              Am 07.02.2010 20:37, schrieb Galen:       > For your TOS 1.2, you have a limit of 256MB per partition, and a limit       > of 14 active partitions at one time. At some point (1.4? 1.62?,       > 2.06?), TOS was revised to be able to handle 512 MB partitions,              That was TOS 1.4.              > and       > the Falcon 4.0x TOS can handle 1 GB partitions. In theory, the drive       > itself can be any size; you just won't be able to access more than 3.5       > GB (256MB x 14). It is possible to switch partitions so as to access       > more of the drive, but it isn't practical. You might want to consider       > a SatanDisk (why on earth did the guy shoot himself in the foot by       > naming it that?), as SCSI drives are nowadays are not the most cost       > effective approach.              The SatanDisk has been replaced by the UltraSatan, which is a much       better name :-). They are currently sold in small batches on eBay UK by       the seller "francisvonkesice" (who has a small problem now with PayPal       since he apparently reached the maximum limit for incoming payments ...       - read atari-forum.com for details).              Thorsten              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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