Problems with Formatting 1224 contiguous cylinders on a Maxtor Drive

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From: Rick Flower
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1989 00:20

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Well, I just borrowed a large Maxtor drive from a friend and was in the
process of formatting it and before it would finish, it would crash the entire
system -- not to the GURU level though.. My MountList is below for those that
are wondering.. Anyway, I was told that there is a POSSIBLE bug in AmigaDos
that won't let you have a SINGLE volume that is greater than around 100Meg's
or so... Perhaps that is why the thing wouldn't format the entire drive as a
single partition???? I tried doing the format 3 times and every time, boom! I
don't know if it had an error message, 'cause I was running Dmouse in the
background and when I check on the 'puter a few hours later, Dmouse had the
screen and that was when it hung!  Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone
could tell me if this possible "bug" is of any consequence or not?!?!


DH2:    Device = hddisk.device
        FileSystem = L:FastFileSystem
        Priority = 10
        Unit   = 3
        Flags = 0
        Surfaces = 15
        BlocksPerTrack = 32
        Reserved = 1
        PreAlloc =0
        Interleave = 0
        LowCyl = 1
        HighCyl = 1223
        StackSize = 4000
        Buffers = 30
        BufMemType = 0
        Mount = 1
        GlobVec = 1
        DosType = 0x444F5301
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Subject: Problems with Formatting 1224 contiguous cylinders on a Maxtor Drive
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