[Oberon] Reason for 'read pio error' ?

[Stefan Salewski]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:03:11 +0200 Andreas Dörr wrote: 
> Currently I use a 5GB partition for Bluebottle. While trying
> to format a second 5GB partition with AosFS I got an error
> '2820' at lba 12991229.
>
I think the 8GB-Limit still exist for Bluebottle and 
ETH-Native-Oberon. This means Bios-calls are used to access the 
harddisk, and this method is limited to the first 8 GB. I am 
not sure if this is still true for newest Bios, but it was true 
too for my /boot-partition of my Linux-Installation.

Try to use partitions below the 8GB-limit at the start of the 
disk. Two 4 GB Partitions at the start of the disk should work, 
maybe a little bit smaller to be safe.

I cant imagine how you will fill 5 GB with Bluebottle. The size 
of OS is less than 50 MB. I use two 1GB partitions at the 
beginning of my 40 GB disk, one for BlueBottle, the other for 
ETH-Native-Oberon. Both have much free space.

Best regards 

  Stefan Salewski