Installing a big hard disk

[SirGraham]

Hello!!!

I have an SCSI-II 74 Gb Seagate HDD ready to be set up on my Amiga. It's now plugged and has SCSI ID = 3

SCSIConfig detects that the HDD is bigger that 4Gb, says that I need  TD64>= 44.4 FFS patch and asks me whether I want to limit the HDD  size to 4 Gb. I answer no. As far as I see, I can perform a low level  format I haven't done, though.

On the other hand, I've installed PFS3 5.3 but HDInstTools says 'No devices found' once and again.  Please, is PFS3 working on my system?

PFS3 should govern SCSI data movement over Workbench, I think, but what I  have now is that Workbench recognizes the HDD in a limited way and PFS3 doesn't even that.

Thank you.

[SirGraham]

This is my machine:

A4000T
Motherboard: Micronik 6960 Rev 4.0
Phase 5 digital Products CyberStorm Mk2 68060 50 mHz
Phase 5 digital Products CyberSCSI MK2
RAM:    64 mb FAST and 2 mb Chip
CyberVision 64/3D with scandoubler
ImpactVision 24
HDD: IBM OEM SCSI-2 2150 mb
CD-ROM: ultraplex 40max
Workbench 3.1

Trying to install: Seagate 74 gb HDD with PFS3

Directory L has several PFS3's filesystems like PFS3, PFS3-020, PFS3-060 and several more, most of them copied by hand by me.

I've edited HDToolBox.info and tried several SCSI device names with no success. Please, do you know the name of the device I should use? It was scsi.device, for which, by the way, I have found no file at all. With scsi.device, HDToolBox founds no drives, not even my 2 gb HDD. What can I do?

Thanks.

[SirGraham]

I'll try that. I have never installed a hard disk into an Amiga. Several weeks ago I did'nt even know PFS3 existed.

[SirGraham]

With cybscsi.device the system recognizes the HDD.

Now, I have to choose drive type but none of them seems to be the best. For example, with SEAGATE ST51080N I have only 1 gb with two partitions. I can create a new type but I don't know its parameters. I also clicked the 'Read Configuration' button but says the size can't be read.

PFS3 is NOT in the list of file systems so I've added it (PFS3-060) with DosType= 0x444f5303 but it says 'International (FFS)' in the file system name.:eek:

Any ideas?

[SirGraham]

Thank you, Thomas.

HDD is Seagate ST373207LW. I have the PDF manual I used in order to set SCSI ID to 3.

I didn't type 444f530. It was the value by default, I guess.

I'll check the rest tomorrow.

Thank you again.

[SirGraham]

I use HDToolBox under WorkBench 3.1.

I'm here right now trying to figure out how to set this HDD up. In a manual I've read it has 90773 cylinders and 2 heads. I would need blocks per track and blocks per cylinder. As Thomas said, we have 143,374,744 blocks (sectors). Besides, at the end of this link http://discountechnology.com/Seagate-ST373207LW-SCSI-Hard-Drive we can see: 181,548 tracks

Blocks per track = 143.374.744/181.584 = 789
Blocks per cylinder = 143.374.744/90773 = 1580

With these parameters HDToolBox reports the HDD has 397 mb :eek:

It's not difficult to get negative sizes. If those parameters were correct, the size should be less than 0, isn't it? Because we are talking about more than 4 gb.

About the filesystem, I've seen this somewhere:

Custom file system PFS3-060ds
Mask 0x7ffffffe
mas transfer 0x00ffffff (UPDATE - now set at 0x0001FE00)
block size 512
buffers 300

Is really possible install this HDD with workbench 3.1 or I need a higher version?

[SirGraham]

It's true I don't NEED 72 gb on my Amiga. I owned that hard disk because I found it on the internet very cheap (11 €, about 15 $, everything included).

I don't know whether PFS3 is running on my system. However, cybscsi.devices does. PFS3 HDInstTool doesn't even recognize the HDD so I haven't been able to set the RDB.

HDToolBox allows me to make changes to the drive but, surprisingly, I can't save them. I've tried to set it as a couple of 2 gb partitions with no success.

This is really breaking my head. I think 4 gb will be enough for me. How can I do that o what can I do? Nothing seems to work.

Thanks!!!