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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: blakespot on August 02, 2009, 11:07:06 PM

Title: How do I format a HD under WB1.3?
Post by: blakespot on August 02, 2009, 11:07:06 PM

Ok.  I have a StarBoard II w/ StarDrive SCSI controller on my A1000.  I've been piecing together the software.  I found the WB boot disk that the orig owner had, which refs stardrive.device in the mountlist in devs/.  Now - that mountlist is config'ed for another HD.  How do I...

1) Learn more about the HD I've got here?  Cylinders, etc.
2) Partition / format it under WB?

It seems that stardrive.device is in ROM as it's not on the boot floppy, but is ref'ed in the guy's mountlist.  I've got no StarDrive setup disk, sadly.  Must I have that to get this drive partitioned and formatted?

It's ~ 1GB HD.

Thanks.




blakespot

Title: Re: How do I format a HD under WB1.3?
Post by: Matt_H on August 03, 2009, 12:58:23 AM

I don't know if the 1.3 version of HDToolbox allows you to work with devices other than scsi.device, but try grabbing it off a 2091 install disk and see if it does.

Title: Re: How do I format a HD under WB1.3?
Post by: Thomas on August 03, 2009, 12:23:40 PM

You could try this program: http://mitglied.lycos.de/thomasrapp/getgeometry.lha

It was written for a completely different purpose, but it will give you the required information to adjust the mountlist, if the driver supports querying the drive size.