Cyberstorm mkIII SCSI and HD Size limits

[danbeaver]

On an A4000(D or T), I find it easier to use an IDE hard drive to install an OS3.1 bootable partition and then do the setup from there rather than from floppies.

However, if you know your SCSI hard drive works, and you have the proper active, wide termination on both ends of the SCSI-3 bus, then you can do an OS 3.1 install to the cybppc.device by going into the Install Disk Hard drive tools icon and change the scsi.device to cybppc.device; save it and the due the prep.  Note that the use of the latest version of FFS will be needed to see the full extent of a large hard drive.

[danbeaver]

Yes, OS3.9 once installed will give that much, but you can't get there without using OS3.1; that is the issue (which doesn't see large drives, and has to be set up to see CD drives).  The CD option for the CS MK3 and CSPPC is not robust enough when I have used it (ergo, IMHO) to install OS3.9 straight.  It does work sometimes for an OS4.1 install using the boot floppy, and sometimes the CD isn't seen on boot.  It is probably not the heat, but the humidity.

[danbeaver]

Well if you are using a recovery floppy, then that means you have a functioning system that has booted to a state that recognizes the CD drive; this is why I use the IDE port to install OS3.1.

Otherwise without being booted to a point to recognize the CD drive and hence the OS3.9 CD, how can it capture your boot settings to make the recovery floppy. I suppose you could borrow someone's floppy from exactly the same system, and it would mount the CD drive and perform the assigns to get the OS3.9 install functioning; however that is like borrowing an egg to make a chicken and asking "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"