Re: 250 gig hard drives

[Daniele Gratteri <sgratte@tin.it>]

DataZap ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone on this list has put a 250 gig hard drive in an
> Amiga with an "Acard" scsi-to-ide bridge. I know that it can be done, and
> although I would need to put the boot partition in the first 2 gig of the
> drive, Linux doesn't have any such limit. The partitions need to be setup
> in HDtoolbox, and because it is an ide drive, I need to setup all the
> geometry by hand. There is a formula for setting this up, I just don't
> know it. Can anyone help me out with this?
>
> Thanks,
> Al
I suppose that, being the bridge a converter from IDE to SCSI, the 
system will see a 250 GB SCSI drive and the bridge should do the 
translation of the geometry values. I am waiting some of these bridges 
for use with my Amigas, will write about my experience as soon as I try 
them.

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