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Old 10-09-2011, 08:40 AM   #1
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What hardware do i need for my amiga 4000 to run bigger hard drives over 4g?. Also what graphics card is best out of picasso 2 or retina z3?.
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Old 10-09-2011, 09:02 AM   #2
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4gb is not a problem, problem is that boot partition cannot be over 2gb. It woun't be problem to have any size HD, to get bigger paritions you will need this http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/ffstd64 or OS3.5/3.9

I would go for retina, it supports Zorro 3 and PicassoII doesn't, at least theory you get faster bus speed with retina.
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Old 10-09-2011, 09:14 AM   #3
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4gb is not a problem, problem is that boot partition cannot be over 2gb. It woun't be problem to have any size HD, to get bigger paritions you will need this http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/ffstd64 or OS3.5/3.9

I would go for retina, it supports Zorro 3 and PicassoII doesn't, at least theory you get faster bus speed with retina.
Strange, my boot partition is 40GB.
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That's really strange...
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Old 10-09-2011, 09:31 AM   #5
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Strange, my boot partition is 40GB.
when u go over 4gb it will wrap round and wreck the rdb. Be warned!
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you mean 40g in total or as a partition
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you mean 40g in total or as a partition
It is 80GB, 2 x 40GB partitions.

Actually, it consists of 2 x 80GB HDs, 4 x 40GB Partitions, PFS3 on a FastATA4000. All partitions boot happily and they all have over 4GB of info on them (ClassicWB 3.x installed, WHDLoad and just about every game you can think of).
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I think i know what you mean i used winuae to install classic wb and first partion was 500 meg and second was 3.7g and so on and when i went to boot into os it changed from rdb to unk and would not boot
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What hardware do i need for my amiga 4000 to run bigger hard drives over 4g?. Also what graphics card is best out of picasso 2 or retina z3?.
OS3.9 and you're good to go, with 3.1 it's a bit more work (although both requier the boot partition to be withing the first 4GB):
SCSI.device v43+
FastFileSystem V43+
LoadModule loading in the SCSI.device and FFS modules from the startup-sequense... that should do it and it also adds CDRom on the A4000 IDE connector aswell.
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What hardware do i need for my amiga 4000 to run bigger hard drives over 4g?. Also what graphics card is best out of picasso 2 or retina z3?.
As the others said, retina z3 would definately be faster. (just make sure your 4000 has buster 11 . i think the retina requires it).

os3.9 would probabaly be the easiest way to get the newer scsi device with 64bit support for large drives.
I would say use SFS over FFS also.
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