Re: RamFAST & big drives

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Jeff Blakeney" <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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: On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:38:32 -0700, "Terry Olsen"
: <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote:
:
: >hmmm....I thought someone would know the answer...  ;)
: >
: >"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message
: >37q2sfF5g3dajU1@individual.net">news:37q2sfF5g3dajU1@individual.net...
: >> What is the largest drive a RamFAST can handle?  I hooked a Seagate
: >> ST12400S (2.1 GB) drive up.  RamFAST knew the model number of the drive,
: >> but when I tried to format it, it went for about 30-45 mins then crashed
: >> with an Integer Overflow (something like that) error.
:
: Well, I don't know the exact size but I remember someone saying that
: the RamFAST only supports up to 1 GB drives but I managed to use a 1.2
: GB drive on my RamFAST for quite some time.
:
: The biggest problem I've found with using large hard drives on the
: RamFAST is the 12 partition limit it has.

Ha!, the MicroDrive IDE card lets you have
16 partitions on a single drive, or 8 each
on a 2 drive system. Master/Slave.

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