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WB 3.0 Fighting my drive
« on: November 10, 2002, 02:46:14 AM »
Okay I guess I'm really showing my ignorance about Amigas here (but then again I don't have the time to worship them in every possible way)

I just ripped a  tiny old harddrive out of my x86 tower case, and decided to put  it in my Amiga.

My Drive:  WDC AC3600L 6.4GB

Cylinders : 13328
Heads: 15
Sectors Per Track: 63
Sectors Per Cylinder: 945


Well during the install, I used the HDTools to try to partition it ( tried getting it to three partitions since 3.0 obviously doesn't like partitons past 4GB).

But for some reason it keeps showing it it up as -2042megs  :-o ?? Not only that, when i go to install workbench on it, it does like it's installing but when i reboot, it show up as Not a DOS disk in device WDH0 (not only that, my volumes are showing up with weird names . Why ??
 

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Re: WB 3.0 Fighting my drive
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2002, 02:52:19 AM »
Uh, dumbass question, but you are formatting the drive  after partitioning it up arent you?

I'm sure there is some utility to let you use 4GB+, do you have a 4way IDE adaptor or are you connecting straight to the 44pin header?

I've never used a 4Gb+ drive on the amigas standard IDE so I can't really help much.
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Re: WB 3.0 Fighting my drive
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2002, 07:07:09 AM »
3.0 does not like hard drive over 4Gb
AOS prefers partitions <= 2Gb

What is happening:
Beyond the Four Gigabyte Barrier

How to fix it:
NSDpatch
or buy 3.5 or 3.9 (and 31 ROMs)
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Scanjet 5p/ZIP *100*/Canon BJC3000/Casio QV100 camera/Multiface 3/A2065/Toccata  
Operating system AMiGA Workbench 3.5.2