[uae] Re: Important: Is using a hardfile partition beyond the first 4 GB of a MBR partition safe?

  • From: Richard Drummond <evilrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:47:30 -0500

Hi Martin

On Saturday 31 July 2004 10:29 am, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Is using a hardfile partition beyond the first 4 GB of a MBR partition
> safe? I always just thought about the size of the hardfile / partition, not
> the location on the disk.

Yes. Or at least I don't see why it wouldn't be. UAE doesn't know or care that 
it's a partition - it just sees a file. There's a current limit of 2GB for a 
hardfile (which I keep saying I'll fix), but the position of that file on the 
disk shouldn't make a difference.

Cheers,
Rich

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