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Title: FIXHDDSIZE not working properly?
Post by: Everblue on May 16, 2008, 10:10:15 PM

I have installed a 40gig Toshiba HDD in my A1200 and run Workbench 3.1 HDinstaller, which, as expected only sees it as an 8 gig HDD. To fix this I have downloaded FIXHDDSIZE and when I run it, it says that my HDD is indeed 8gig, and that it is already set correctly - which is not the case.

Anyone can help me out with this strange problem? I am running kickstart 3.0.

Thanks!


E'Blue

Title: Re: FIXHDDSIZE not working properly?
Post by: Zac67 on May 16, 2008, 10:36:33 PM

Possibly the HDD was clipped via jumper or ATA command?

Title: Re: FIXHDDSIZE not working properly?
Post by: davideo on May 16, 2008, 10:39:11 PM

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Everblue wrote:
I have installed a 40gig Toshiba HDD in my A1200 and run Workbench 3.1 HDinstaller, which, as expected only sees it as an 8 gig HDD. To fix this I have downloaded FIXHDDSIZE and when I run it, it says that my HDD is indeed 8gig, and that it is already set correctly - which is not the case.

Anyone can help me out with this strange problem? I am running kickstart 3.0.

Thanks!

E'Blue

Have you updated your file system to the latest verison?

I believe you need to - to see more than 8GB  :idea:

Dave G  8-)

Title: Re: FIXHDDSIZE not working properly?
Post by: pyrre on May 17, 2008, 12:05:35 AM

what about setpatch?

Title: Re: FIXHDDSIZE not working properly?
Post by: AmigaMance on May 17, 2008, 01:11:53 AM

I have a 40GB western digital and i did had to run any special tools to make the system recognize it as a 40GB HD.
 What version of scsi.device are you using? I hope not the OS3.1 one. I'm using the IDEFix package from Aminet. Try it.
 By HDInstaller you mean HDToolBox? Try HDInstTools. Perhaps it's better.

Edit: Right.. I forgot to say that i had to set the size of each partition by increasing the cylinders value, not by using the size slider as it was reseting to 0 beyond the 8GB.

Title: Re: FIXHDDSIZE not working properly?
Post by: Thomas on May 17, 2008, 06:53:46 AM

@Everblue:

scsi.device V40 and below cannot see more than 8 GB. You need scsi.device V43 or higher to use 40 GB.

You need one of
scsi.device V43 beta (http://os.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=37)
IDEfix97 (http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/IDEfix97)
OS 3.5
OS 3.9

While the first two run with Kick 3.0, for the latter two you need Kick 3.1.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: FIXHDDSIZE not working properly?
Post by: Everblue on May 17, 2008, 08:34:51 AM

Thanks a lot everyone for your replies.

I have downloaded scsi.device from that link, but the zipped file contains files such as:

a300.ld.strip
a600.ld.strip
etc.

Is this normal? I thought that it would be just a file called scsi.device which I would then put in the DEVS directory. Sorry for my n00bness?

Thanks :)


E'blue

Title: Re: FIXHDDSIZE not working properly?
Post by: zipper on May 17, 2008, 12:59:45 PM

What about reading the readme file?

Title: Re: FIXHDDSIZE not working properly?
Post by: Everblue on May 17, 2008, 01:33:48 PM

Sorry - I thought it was a matter of placing a file in some folder :)

Title: Re: FIXHDDSIZE not working properly?
Post by: Thomas on May 17, 2008, 04:27:10 PM

Note that the LoadV43Module program which comes with the strip files does insist on Kick 3.1. To use the files with Kick 3.0 you can use BlizKick (http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/BlizKick) (if you have a suuported accelerator) or Thor's LoadModule (http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/LoadModule).

And you might want to apply the PatchStrip (http://aminet.net/package/util/sys/patchstrip) to the strip files, otherwise you'll get annoying guru messages about expired beta periods on every boot.

Also note that you need SFS (http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/SFS) or a similar advanced file system for your partitions.

Bye,
Thomas