Any guide for GOVERHD?

Started by H68k, January 06, 2015, 05:35:24 AM

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H68k

Does anyone know how to use the GOVERHD utility?

What little documentation it comes with does not make much sense to me.

eidis

 Hi H68k !

Here you go.

Using hard drives which are larger than 1GB
http://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=x68000:using_hard_drives_which_are_larger_than_1gb

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H68k

Thank you Eidis..

So after reading the guide and having a quick go with XM6g.. All GOVERHD does is make two 'virtual' SCSI drives out of the two partitions on the same SCSI drive? 

eidis

 Hi H68k !

QuoteSo after reading the guide and having a quick go with XM6g.. All GOVERHD does is make two 'virtual' SCSI drives out of the two partitions on the same SCSI drive? 

No. It updates SCHDISK (SCSI hard disk driver) and MENUIPL (boot menu). Both of them reside at the beginning of the hard disk or hard disk image. It also updates both partitions, if they were not created with SxSI. As a result it is possible to access and write data beyond the 1GB barrier without causing data corruption.

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X-Col

Does this mean we can have partitions larger than 1Gb instead of 2 separate partitions?  ???

eidis

Hi X-Col !

QuoteDoes this mean we can have partitions larger than 1Gb instead of 2 separate partitions?

No

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