[geeks] Greater than 4GB swapfile on XP...

[Mike Hebel]

A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: james
>> Okay this is frustrating the crap out of me here.
>>
>> I've got seven engineering workstations running XP Pro SP3
>> and two of them can set the swapfile greater than 4096 but
>> the others can't.
>>
>> WTF is the difference?  I can't seem to find a difference
>> in the software load on those machines versus the other
>> ones.
>>
>> Anybody have a suggestion on how to set these things to
>> 8192 fixed? --
>> Mike Hebel
>
>
> The FAT's cannot handle more than 4G. You need NTFS
> filesystems.

They're all NTFS.

I have found a difference though.  The two 8192 systems have ATA drives
while the rest are SCSI systems.

Would the format be different enough between those controllers to cause
this problem?
-- 
Mike

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