Amiga A500-HD8+ Hard Drive problem

[malkc]

Help !!

My good old trusty amiga 500+ (A500-HD8+) has just failed .

I have a spare 2Gb scsi drive but my amiga won't see it .

The Hard drive I am trying to install is
a Segate Barracuda  Model ST32171N

Could it be the disk is to large for my amiga ..

Thanks for any help ..

Malk

[malkc]

Ok some more info on this problem

When I have the hard drive (a500-hd8+) selector to autoboot  the hard drive led stays on and my amiga screen is blank .

When I boot from floppy and run the GVP Hard drive install disk and select expert prep it looks at the scsi card and all the drives installed on it , when it reaches the seagate  drive the pointer changes to the timer icon and and the hard drive led again if on all the time .

This is where it stops , It knows that there is a hard drive on that id , but fails to perp it.
 I have also tried another drive , this one is an IBM 1Gb . Same problem .

Up to 3Am this morning trying all that I know .   Still failed .

I have an old 80Mb drive that works fine , But I don’t think 80Mb will last long with all the games and music I want to put back on .

Please Help !

[malkc]

Thanks Lads ..  

I thought it might be something to do with that , but wasn't sure .

I will see it I can source a rom upgrade . if not then a 512Mg scsi drive , There is bound to be some kick about .  :-)