Device names (DH0:, CDH0:, etc.) help on A2000

[blakespot]

Hey there.

I have a 4GB CF card that came to me preformatted / partitioned with some Amiga stuff on it. It's part of a SCSI / IDE converter board kit.

These are the partitions:

CDH0: 2GB
CDH1: 999MB
CDH2: 1GB

So I copied my old physical disk (720MB) content to CDH1: after formatting it. I then removed that disk (wanted it out). So the boot volume I want to go forward with is on CDH1:.

Is this fine? Is it ok to have my Work or Data volume the larger CDH0: (lower #)? A lot of my boot scripts reference DH0: so I need to change them to reflect the new device names. I could rename the devices I guess, to make CDH1: DH0: I guess, but I kind of like the C prefix for card.

Is it easy to just make the boot called CDH0:, renaming the 2GB part CDH1: for my own pref?

Also - how do I set default booting when the system comes up? It's a 3.1 ROM A2000. I can select with double mouse buttons at boot, but how do I make default boot one of these volumes in particular?

Thanks.




bp

[blakespot]

You can rename them whatever you want - but you need to edit all assigns to the new name. Change the boot priority with HDToolbox - the highest bootable partition will boot; keep the priority under 5 (floppy).

Thanks, edit the device name how (from cli)?




bp

[blakespot]

HD Toolbox can't even see any of the disks on the system.

Am using a Phase 5 A2060's SCSI controller. I installed the latest Phase 5 SCSI-Tools and those tools seem not to let me rename a partition / volume. I can kill, create though.

Am I out of luck? Thanks.




bp

[blakespot]

As far as your scripts go, I've found it very helpful to make an assign early on for sys: to whatever partition you want then have everything relative to sys:. This decreases the number of places that you need to change if you ever do this again (or set up multi-os boot configs, etc...)

I have something like that going, but not fully - need to get on that.

Still, I would like to rename the devices, and HD Toolbox sees nothing on the system. Hmm.




bp

[blakespot]

Thanks, all.

Changing the tooltype to 2060scsi.device did it. I should'e thought of that.

I just went ahead and changed things to DH0: -> DH2:, terms I am used to. I have an assign to SYS: in my startup scripts, but not as early as it should be.

Actually, my startup scripts boot either WB1.3 or 3.1 on the same partition based on the ROM version - I have a switcher. Given that I am using the A2060 as the SCSI controller now, I can't really boot into 1.3 with that setup, I think, so I may just remove the extra script abstraction and keep to 3.1 always.

I do have an A1000 over on the other desk, so... :-)




bp