On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:59:59AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> Two PCs, not very old, one running Win98 and the other: Linux. I
> bought a 40Gb disk with the intention of consolidating both OSs into
> one box, with all the memory, and access to the same set of devices,
> thereby freeing up a more modest (8Gb) disk for the Q40.
>
> After much swearing everytime I cut my hands plugging and unplugging
> too-tightly fitting boards and connectors in an awkward shape box with
> sharp pointy bits, guess what I discovered?
> Yes, the Q40 was the only mainboard that didn't have a panic attack
> when it discovered a 40Gb disk attached to it! So one-nil to the Q40.
> Also well done for having AT/ATX independent power connector on the Q40
> mainboard, so I can move it into the spare ATX box, freeing up the AT
> one for something else.
> So now I have one PC with 2x8Gb disks and 384Mb RAM, while the Q40 is
> sitting there with its shiny new 40Gb waiting for me to find something
> to use it all for.
>
> Incidentally, mkpart_exe offered some 16 million sectors for
> partitioning, which by my reckoning is about 8Gb, though when I put all
> this is one partition and formatted it I only got 4Gb.
known limitation of SMSQ. It does not do LBA currently so it sees
only 8GB total. 4 GB/partition is another limit in SMSQ.
mkpart does the rest to confuse, it has some arithmetic overflow so it
is not usable with larger disks. Luckilly linux with 2.2.17 or any 2.4
kernel with updated atari-fdisk will correctly partition any drive (iirc
Linux has some limit to 16 ide partitions). I have also done some work
on qxltool recently so it should be pretty reliable for formatting SMSQ
partitions. SMSQ has not been tested accessing more than 3 partitions
per drive.
Bye
Richard
