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Title: seeing partitions in wb3.1
Post by: wild_44 on March 24, 2005, 10:32:06 PM

Hi peeps great forum, I have built myself an amiga 1200 tower with an idefix board fitted with registerd software, I have a 6gig 3.5" drive fitted partitioned into 4 1.5 gigs, the trouble i'm having is I can only see two partitions when I boot up if I go into dopus4 and type dh2: or dh3: and then close dopus the drives appear and work fine. How do I setup to see all drives when I first boot, do I have to create a mount file ? I wouldn't have thought I did but its been along time since i've used the amiga

thanks

wild_44

Title: Re: seeing partitions in wb3.1
Post by: bigdan on March 24, 2005, 10:45:53 PM

Check your Dopus4 version... http://dopus.free.fr/ (http://dopus.free.fr/)

Latest version available seems Directory Opus 4.17 Pre 21

"listers should work on partitions bigger than 2GB now"
(since Dopus 4.16 beta 2 and beta 3).

Personaly, i use "ecodisk" program (Morphos and AmigaOs 3.1) that's very cool too...

Title: Re: seeing partitions in wb3.1
Post by: wild_44 on March 25, 2005, 08:59:09 AM

Thanks for replying but my problem is ican't see dh2: and dh3: disk icons when i first bootup I can only see them after i've opened adopus. They work fine in dopus.

cheers

wild_44

Title: Re: seeing partitions in wb3.1
Post by: Noster on March 25, 2005, 10:56:39 AM

Hi,

start HDToolBox, select a drive and one of the partitions that doesn't appears after the Workbench is loaded.
Select the button "Change..." (used to change the filesystem of the partition). Now a dialog should open, where you can set some properties for the filesystem of the partition. Here is a checkbox named "Automount this partition". This must be checked!

Noster

Title: Re: seeing partitions in wb3.1
Post by: wild_44 on March 25, 2005, 11:48:44 AM

Thanks Noster I've had a look in HDToolBox and all partitions are allready set to automount very strange.

wild_44

Title: Re: seeing partitions in wb3.1
Post by: pjhutch on March 25, 2005, 12:27:00 PM

MAke sure the volumes have a disk.info icon on the root of each new partition to view them on Workbench. Copy the one from DH0, to the other partitions to see them.

Title: Re: seeing partitions in wb3.1
Post by: wild_44 on March 25, 2005, 12:56:40 PM

Thats the first thing I tried copying the disk.info's i'm thinking its something to do with idefix97

Title: Re: seeing partitions in wb3.1
Post by: bigdan on March 25, 2005, 02:45:55 PM

What's in your NSDPatch.cfg file (if exists), what's in your NSDPatch line in startup-sequence (include in Setpatch in later WB like 3.5/3.9) ?

You confirm your hardisk has been installed with HDToolbox (WB3.1) only ?

Title: Re: seeing partitions in wb3.1
Post by: melott on March 25, 2005, 03:08:36 PM

I think your problem is the drive is over 4 gigs.
OS 3.1 can only see 4 gigs with FFS (fast file system).

If you setup partitions to 4 gigs and just forget the
rest it should probably work.

In order to use the whole drive you will have to change
file systems to Smart File System (on Aminet I think)
or PFS (a commerical file system (I think)).

Title: Re: seeing partitions in wb3.1
Post by: wild_44 on March 26, 2005, 03:00:03 PM

Sorted it thanks guys the filesystem was set to custom I've changed dh2: & dh3: to ffs formatted them rebooted and it saw them straight away :) happy

thanks

wild_44