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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: pneron on January 02, 2017, 08:05:33 PM
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I have installed/partitioned some new drives during my 3.9 upgrade.
I also have a few residual "non-dos drives" that I cannot use due to size of new drive partitions. Is there anyway of getting rid of these drives on main screen...hiding them is fine for now.
Thanks
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Tick them on Prefs/Workbench/hidden devices
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I have installed/partitioned some new drives during my 3.9 upgrade.
I also have a few residual "non-dos drives" that I cannot use due to size of new drive partitions. Is there anyway of getting rid of these drives on main screen...hiding them is fine for now.
Thanks
It's a left over .info file that has no home. use a shell to delete.
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Thank you !
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I cannot see these drives from a Shell. They only appear on my WB screen at boot-up and the only thing I can do (unsuccessfully) is to try and format them - which prompts me with "Non-DOS" error (the icons on my WB screen state them as "unreadable") These are unused space areas from my format drive.
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I cannot see these drives from a Shell. They only appear on my WB screen at boot-up and the only thing I can do (unsuccessfully) is to try and format them - which prompts me with "Non-DOS" error (the icons on my WB screen state them as "unreadable") These are unused space areas from my format drive.
A dir search should show it as a .info file with no real file associated with it. If not something is really wrong here.
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Tick them on Prefs/Workbench/hidden devices
@ OP this is the correct solution
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@ OP this is the correct solution
or use
assign dismount drive:
in user-startup
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Or go to HDToolbox and edit the partition(s) you want to hide and unselect 'Automount this partition' for each one. They can then be mounted in a shell with the mount command at your will. When you want them to automatically mount again you can go back into HDToolbox to reverse the changes.
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OK...will review these options everyone - thanks
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I do not "see" any of these options to del or remove the drives.
I have attached a screen shot HDToolbox. As per previous messages, I formatted a 300Gig drive into 7 active partitions. The "Ghost" drives I suspect have to do with perhaps "non-dos" areas of the drive ?
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There must be a gap between partitions or some part of the drive not labeled yet, strange.
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Wow, that looks messy. Out of curiosity, what happens if you drag them into BenchTrash? ;)
Here's where the option to hide stuff like that is hidden:
(pic attached)
...There's gotta be a better way to unmount them, however. Are there any other devices listed on the previous screen in HDToolbox?
Also, it makes baby jesus cry that you used FFS instead of PFS or SFS. :lol:
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That did the trick...Thanks Mike
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BTW: What version of WB is that "Ghostbuster"?
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I do not "see" any of these options to del or remove the drives.
I have attached a screen shot HDToolbox. As per previous messages, I formatted a 300Gig drive into 7 active partitions. The "Ghost" drives I suspect have to do with perhaps "non-dos" areas of the drive ?
Unpartitioned areas of the drive will not show up as anything on Workbench. Only mounted partitions will appear on Workbench. Your NDOS? partitions must be ones without filesystems (correctly) installed, or they need formatting.
In the photo, the checkbox for 'Automatically mount this partition' is behind the Change button. So for each partition you'd want to hide you'd select the partition, then press the Change button, then untick the aforementioned checkbox.
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In the photo, the checkbox for 'Automatically mount this partition' is behind the Change button
Thank Paul but are you referring to my photo or Mike's because I do not see that option on the HDTool?
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BTW: What version of WB is that "Ghostbuster"?
Running 3.9 + BB1-4 + about 25 years spent acquiring other hacks & patches and customizing. ;)
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In the photo, the checkbox for 'Automatically mount this partition' is behind the Change button
Thank Paul but are you referring to my photo or Mike's because I do not see that option on the HDTool?
Mark a partition and click on "change", and you will see a tick for "Automount", remove that and the partitions will not be attempted mounted by the OS, and will not appear as NDOS on Workbench.
Out of curiosity - why do you have them in the first place?
EDIT: OK, I read this thread some more - something is clearly very weird with your system. Do you have more hard drives attached?
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In the photo, the checkbox for 'Automatically mount this partition' is behind the Change button
Thank Paul but are you referring to my photo or Mike's because I do not see that option on the HDTool?
Your photo, a bit above the Cancel button. :)
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Thank you Paul, I will review tonight when I get home from work.
Also, to Kolla's question: As per previous thread (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71166&highlight=300gig), I partitioned a 300Gig drive into a number drives (I have a lot of Audio files and need the space). It was suggested that I needed to use the advance feature and manually enter cylinder numbers into the input fields. I calculated what that was and entered the value.
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As a thought, before you get too far along, try coping a number of large files around from partition to partition. Check for any write errors that might indicate potential future issues (such as Mask or MaxTransfer values being incorrect, etc.). Just a bit of homework for ya! :)
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yep ...did a bunch of these test/activities when I set up the drives. I even ran Studio16/B&P off all the drives to test the "integrity" of the drives
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Thank you Paul, I will review tonight when I get home from work.
Make sure that when you select the partition with the mouse from the graph that you don't move the partition around as that would move the partition start and end points causing data loss of that partition (if settings then saved). Press Cancel and go into it again if this happens. This shouldn't happen though as there should be no gaps if partitioned correctly (no wasted space) thus no possibility of movement on the graph. There may be a shortcut key to select different partitons like TAB or something.
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WOW...did not know that. Thanks.