do you have an 80gig maxtor diamondmax plus 9 hd set up with hdtoolbox? then PLS help!

[Framiga]

Im>bE

don't worry about the wrong value in HDToolbox.

This kind of problems, are well known with the original IDE port (A1200 and A4000).

If HDToolbox show <8GB of total space, could be a Filesystem problem.

Have you chose and selected SFS Filasystem from HDTollbox? (SmartFileSystem must be in L:)

Ciao

PS- have you installed BB-1 and BB-2 on your OS3.9?

[Framiga]

@ Im>bE

with large and modern HD, the boot partition MUST be the first on the HD and less than 2 GB.

Ciao

[Framiga]

by Im>bE on 2003/7/24 20:05:00

Now the scsi direct partition can't write
beyond 7.8 gig of the hd...

AFAIK with the standard IDE interface and PfsDirectScsi, the limit is near 8GB.

I think you need IDEFix97 with plain PFS3.

If you'll install IdeFix97, you must add the option:

SetPatch SKIPROMUPDATES "scsi.device" QUIET

Ciao

PS- IMHO buy a FastATA interface (PowerFlyer PioMode4) :-)

-edit

have you checked that the old HD partitions, has the same Mask and MaxTransfer like the new one?

[Framiga]

by Im>bE on 2003/7/25 0:59:23

>If he'd have the updated scsi.device, then there wouldn't be any problems at all

ye, tell me about it.

the thing is that the rom updates
either crash or slow down reading (not writing)
on any of my hds.

im trying to use blizkick to install the scsi.device atm.

But . . . . you haven't the RomUpdate running???

You'll never see all the 80GB of your new HD !

So, use PFS with Idefix97.

Ciao

PS-for the speed problem, try to disable ONLY the RomUpdate scsi.device with:

SetPatch SKIPROMUPDATES "scsi.device" QUIET