emusonacid!

Hi,
Ive just bought a brand new 2.5 ide to replace my old 3.5 noise maker. Its a WD 1600beve 160Gb Ide.

Ive had no probs with the power connecter as i just used the existing one from my old HD and i did the 40-44 pin adapter no probs apart from initially not knowing which pins on the new HD were power.

But the problem is when i went to FAT format the new drive in disk utils it came up with unspecified error so i clicked ok & it said could not write FAT block.
I then tried to format it to EMU instead which it did no probs. But i need FAT 32 so i can back up on OSX.
I tried then reinstalling EOS 4.7 and in the process it seemed to have formatted the HD to fat but when i press info on the HD its only showing 127Gb when shouldnt it be 137Gb which is the FAT max?

I am worried that if i start saving stuff to it it will soon fuck up. Any ideas on this would really help.

Cheers

P.s is there any way of formatting the hd to FAT 32 with a mac or pc and would it still work in eos

I would have been a better idea to purchase a harddisc with a capacity that EOS 4.70 or better FAT32 can handle.
It might be that OSX and Windows won't offer FAT32 as filesystem for a partition-size, larger than 137GB, so that you have to format the drive using your Emulator.
If EOS would be capable of adminstrating more than one partion on a HD, it would be easier to use a larger HD.
Check your dealer if you can swap the HD to a WD 1200BEVE (I have this one). Then you will be on the safe side.

But by the way:
Who is using such a large library on a hardware-sampler today that justifies this HD-capacity?
All in all my library is, including all crap etc., round about 70-80 GB.
Most of these sounds are classical instruments which in my opinion are timeless.

Cheers

Hi Mosrob thanks for your response,
Well i suppose i just wanted to max it out because i read a post by altus on hear that 160 is fine but you will only see 137 max.
http://www.emusonacid.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2561&p=12531&hilit=160gb#p12531

I have even more problems now since reinstalling EOS 4.7, when a not is played the velocity is random and the volume changes also. The 4.7 was a copy i bought from ebay, could this be why?
Cheers