Large Hard Disks
07-Dec-94 16:53:45
Sb: #44626-Large Hard Disks
Fm: Gerhard Miksic 100420,3472
To: Mal Lansell 74222,3046
Mal,
as far as I know, the limitations you mentioned result from the head/sector
-translation used by the PC-BIOS. I do not think, that this can be a
problem with the Amiga because BIOS (not available) cannot be used, so for
using the harddisk – whatever it's size may be – a software driver has to
be used.
Furthermore there's a so called Enhanced Mode available with many modern
drives but these features do not have to be used, if a harddisk controller
does not know anything about them, the harddisk is used as every other
ordinary IDE-drive.
Regards, Gerhard …