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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Leifern on March 04, 2006, 02:40:06 AM

Title: Dead IDE-Hardrive..???
Post by: Leifern on March 04, 2006, 02:40:06 AM

Hi all,


I've been messing around with ShapeShifter and decided to connect my 20gb IDE-drive to the ide-controller on the 1200 motherboard for use with the emulator. I connected it, formatted it and thought everything was going well. I then found out that the Partition i wanted to use with SS needed to have 512 something-somthing and not 1024. So i started reformatting the drive. 34% into the operation my sytem crashed. I had to turn the power of, and when i restarted the system wouldn't boot.

I've disconnected the IDE-drive now, and it all works like a charm, but it would really like to use the IDE-drive for the MAC-emulator, but i cant even go to the rom-screen on boot to select where to boot from (non of the IDE partitions where Bootable, by the way). I've also tried booting with the OS3.9 emergency disk but with no luck.
My main HD is a SCSI through the Blizzard SCSI-controller.

Does anybody know what's gone wrong, and how to fix it?

Please help... :-?

Title: Re: Dead IDE-Hardrive..???
Post by: Homer on March 04, 2006, 07:14:45 AM

Can you connect it to a pc to check the drive ? If you can and you know how to use fdisk then that would be a good way to see the drive and attempt to save changes to it. You could also give it a Fat32 format while you are there to prove it will accept a format.
I had problems with two IDE drives on a pc when it crashed due to me setting memory in bios to "aggressive". It was aggressive I must admit as it destroyed two different hard drives ! I downloaded the drive manufacturers dos diagnostic tools for the drives and they were both proved dead (Unable to see them at all with fdisk either). I sent a nice email to the motherboard manufacturer and asked them to rename the "agressive" mode to "self - destruct"
 :lol:

Title: Re: Dead IDE-Hardrive..???
Post by: InTheSand on March 04, 2006, 08:32:36 AM

Hehe! Oops! An amusing tale!

I'd also suggest trying to connect the drive to a PC...

Or at least re-running HDToolbox on the Amiga to see if you can recreate the partitions...

 - Ali

Title: Re: Dead IDE-Hardrive..???
Post by: Framiga on March 04, 2006, 12:55:44 PM

SS supports max 2 GB partition (512 bytes block)

Title: Re: Dead IDE-Hardrive..???
Post by: zipper on March 04, 2006, 01:31:45 PM

And don't go past 4 GB border!

Title: Re: Dead IDE-Hardrive..???
Post by: Leifern on March 04, 2006, 02:57:22 PM

Hmmm, i don't have a PC i can connect it to. It's a 2.5drive. And the Amiga won't boot with it connected so i cant run HDtoolbox as long as it's connected to the Amiga.

I don't understand.. None of the partitions are "bootable". Why does the Amiga care if the drive is dead or not? Shouldn't i be able to boot with the SCSI hd anyway?