How to use 160gb HD on Amiga 1200?

[Dandy]

Hi I need help about using 160gb Hard Disk on Amiga 1200 with Amiga OS 3.9.

I would like to create 4 partitions:

- 1st with 4gb
- 2nd with 50gb
- 3rd with 50gb
- 4th with 50gb

I try using HDTools but doest work.

Thank you!

Well, I also use a 160 gB harddisk in my Amiga4000PPC with OS 3.9.
Just that I use PFS3 as file system instead of FFS.
PFS3 doesn't have the 4 gB limitation,  but it is commercial and I don't know where you could get it nowadays, aside from the electric bay...



EDIT:
I just saw it is on Aminet these days:
PFS3_53 on Aminet

[Dandy]

There is still a 128gb limit with scsi.device?

Was there ever such a limit? Never experienced it...

Having a big hard drive with original 3.1 roms is pure luck, some drives doesn't work at all and some does.

Hmmm - let me think a moment:
I have two Kick3.1-A500s with Viper520 accelerator boards. On the Vipers there are 2.5" 320 mB harddrives - so no 4gB/128gB problem at all.

Then there is the towered Kick3.1-A1200 with IDEfix and 40 gB HD - also no problems - neither with 4gB, nor with 128gB (obviously not with just 40gB HD). Exceeding the 4gB limit is made possible by the TD64 device from the IDEfix 97 disk.

Finally there is the A4000 in Micronik BigTower with UW-SCSI host Adapter on the CSPPC, where my HDs are connected to. The HDs are 160gB (IDE via ACARD IDE->UW-SCSI bridge) and 4.3gB. Also no 4gB/128gB problems due to PFS3.

So far every harddrive I ever connected to my Kickstart 3.1 Miggies worked flawlessly out of the box - be it mfm/rll harddrives, IDE harddrives (2.5." and 3.5"), SCSI-II harddrives or UW-SCSI harddrives...

...
As far as I know this is only scsi.device for standard A1200 ide wich works with any size hard drives.
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Hmmm - AFAIR, during the construction phase of my A4k tower, I had the 160 gB drive initially connected to the internal IDE port and was running OS 3.1 before I installed OS 3.5 and later 3.9.
I cannot remember of having experienced any scsi.device related problems - neither with OS 3.1, nor with OS 3.5 or 3.9 ...

This 400gb hard drive didn't work at all with 3.1 kickastart

Hmmm - on my Kick 3.1 A4kPPC I even connected an external 1 tB HD via USB to it - and it worked flawlessly.

[Dandy]

My boot partition is 28gb
...

:eek:
Why does your boot partition have to be THAT big?
Normally 10 m[/i]B should suffice for the OS...