Elbox 1200FastATA Mk3 splitting drives!

[darksun9210]

Hi there, i've just bough a 60Gb 1.8" drive (half the size of a 2.5" drive! and sooooo quiet! :-o ), and plugging it into my PowerFlyer/FastATA MkIII on my 1200. after having a panic as it wouldn't boot (setpatch - ata3.driver change round in startup-sequence) i've sorted that and installed a basic 3.9 setup on it. but...

in order to support drives greater than 4Gb, it splits it into logical drives each no more than 4Gb. they show in HD toolbox as scsi.device ID 0 Lun 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7, and ID 4 Lun 0,1,2,3,4,5,6. so i now have 15(!) 4Gb drives!

after my system, fusion MAC, Games, Data, and Apps partitions, that leaves 10 more drives!

how can i set it to not split my drive up so i can set the partition sizes i want, on one drive? i know there is a no-split option in ata3prefs, but it keeps resetting to split mode! is there something i am missing?

sorry if i'm being stupid about this, but i feel like i'm hitting my head against a brick wall  :-?

[darksun9210]

ok cool. thanks for that amigakit and voodoo! i'll check it out tonight... hang on. its friday... hmmm depends if i get back from a public drinking establishment at a reasonable time... have a good weekend!

[darksun9210]

hmmm, with normal ffs, i got 4.99Mb a second last night on my 030/50.... ata3prefs says that it has set up my drive as pio mode3, even though it is pio mode 5 capable...(?)

to be honest, the only way i could fit eveything in a standard case and close the lid was to get one of these FastATA things. the speed is a bonus, but does help when mucking about with DVDs, and copying lots of data to hard disk (2000 odd whdload games downloaded at work

[darksun9210]

the only installation problems i had was clipping the legs off the back of the card so it fitted over the other chips on the mainboard. i'd recommend getting the bvision kit for the FastATA even if you don't have a bvision - just so you can get a good fit in the rom sockets...

anyway, looking at those xfer rates, i guess pio3 should be more than enough. sets my DVD at pio 4 thought....   :-?

oh well.

i wanted to get the IDEfix express, but i couldn't find anyone selling them  :-( both do pretty much the same thing anyway... must get that hardware Pcmcia network card reset fix from power computing though...

[darksun9210]

hmmm, this drive splitting thing is doing my nut.

i'll see if i can get some time this evening to work on it, otherwise, i'm going to see if i can get a couple of IDE to SCSI converters.

why am i using an interupt driven IDE interface that chews CPU time, when i have a DMA capable scsi controller able to push data twice as fast?

oh yeah, each adapter per drive costs £50.... thats why  :lol: