MountList for my 120MB Quantum HD for A1000

[blakespot]

Hey there,

I am trying to get a Quantum LPS120 HD formatted for use under KS/WB 1.3 with an Amiga 1000. The drive will be connected to a Microbotics StarBoard II with StarDrive SCSI module. I've been running a 40MB Quantum in this config for some time, but the drive became corrupted when a Guru landed during a write and disk-verifier won't fix it.

So here's another drive.

Now, the StarDrive software is geared towards WB 1.2 - pre FFS. There's an addendum on the disk that speaks of larger than 32MB or whatever it was volumes working fine with the controller under WB 1.3 with the proper MountList entries, etc. But the tools are 1.2-centric.

Here's a conversation from years back I started, showing some of the issues I hit with this first time around...

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=49567

So, I've run the AskDrive software to get info on the drive, part of the StarDrive disk, and it shows me this - but some of the info is conflicting. I want to use this to build a MountList by hand, but it seems I need more than what's here:


drive info for a Quantum LPS120 HD by blakespot, on Flickr

Any helpful tips on what this MountList should look like for this drive? Seems I need to mount it and then format it under WB 1.3, as opposed to with the StarDrive formatter that thinks 32MB or so is the max partition size allowable (pre-FFS).

Thanks...





bp

[blakespot]

What util would I even use to format the disk under 1.3? There's no HDToolbox. Or is there a 1.3 HDToolbox somewhere?

Tnx.




bp

[blakespot]

I am not sure what you are asking for. All needed information is shown in the screen shot. It even has the correct syntax. You only need to copy & paste it into the mountlist.

Well, for one, does it have 87 or 173 BlockPerTrack?



bp

[blakespot]

Great. I did go ahead and build that mountlist and ran the StarDrive software to detect errors and to low level format the drive (whether that was needed, or wise...).

So, how do I actually format the disk? The tools that came with the StarDrive controller are pre-FFS and there is an addendum that speaks of full FFS compat, but the formatting software that came with, I believe, will not do a FFS format.

Can I use the AmigaDos 1.3 CLI 'format' command to do it, or is that only for floppies? Any suggestion on switches to enable, other than FFS?

Thanks much.




bp

[blakespot]

I recommend PFS3AIO rather than FFS though, assuming it works on your machine but I see no obvious reason why it wouldn't.

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/pfs3aio

Why, in a nutshell?

All the old 1.3, 1.2 apps will play happy? What is the win? Thanks.



bp

[blakespot]

So I got the drive mounted and quick formatted (thanks Thomas) and went to copy the contents of old drive to new. (The whole point here is that disk validation can't validate dh0:, so I am adding the new drive. I seem to be able to read from dh0: fine, tho - can't write.)

I issued:

copy dh0:#? dh1: all clone quiet

...and it copied only files at the root level of the source disk, no subdirectories or their contents. Am I missing something?

Thanks.





bp