old scsi HD 9 gig

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My old pal Larry, the famous guy who gave me two supercharged A4K Amigas and the mysterious '060 card, also gave me an IBM 9 gig HD model DNES-309170. I'd like to use this puppy, especially in the desktop model Larry gave me. Trouble is, when I hook it up and use HDTools I seem to get a lot of nonsense numbers and end up with only using about 2 gigs. I found a site with the stats on this thing, but they don't seem quite the right numbers for what I need to force the issue(like it doesn't list any 'cylinders' or blocks). Any ideas as to how I can make the A4k "see" all 9 gigs and partition it into reasonably sized sections? I plan to do some animations and maybe even screw around learning some programming in my old age, so I don't need huge partitions, but I really would like more than 1/4 of the damn drive. Obviously one approach is to toss it and buy a new drive, but I realy don't like that approach. I like to use what I have. I even pulled a tiny HD out of an ancient Intergraph workstation, like 40+ megs of space, because, hey, I'm not in good shape either, but my wife doesn't throw me out!

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I have os 3.9 on the desktop. I guess I should try again. I'm using the scsi controler on the Cyberstorm. I tried using the drive in the Tower as well with same results. Both machines have os 3.9. Isn't there some PD prog that really "looks" into drives? I seem to recall.... What about "Whichamiga?"

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Boingbag 1 tries to install and hangs up at 40%. The whole machine locks up and I have to power down. I tried downloading it from a couple of sites and get the same response. BB2 asks me to first install OS 3.5 (which I don't have)and refuses to install. Something is wrong here because the same archive for Dopus installs and runs fine on the desktop but bellies up on the tower. The tower is using a Cyberstorm PPC card, os 3.9 and except for a couple of strange things like that runs fine. I downloaded the Phase 5 install dms archives and wil try to reinstall the drivers and libraries and see if that helps. Can I use the HDTools off the os 3.9 CD directly?

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The first Boingbag archive is the one I have been trying to load. I will check the libraries from your archive and see how they compare. A number of progs fail on the tower, including Dopus, but the same dopus archive on the desktop runs fine, so it has to be something outside the OS installation and the Cyberstorm seems likliest. The second BB archive wasn't familiar so I guess I have the wrong one. Maybe if I can get the libraries straight I can fix it up. I can't figure out where the damn disk went for the Phase5 software! I sold a "spare" cyberstorm to pay the school taxes and sent the CD with it because I still had the floppy. Only now I don't. I have tried every disk I have with '060 libraries but no improvement. I DLd archives of the Phase5 stuff and have yet to extract the dms archives but maybe that will give me what I need as well. Pain in the butt by and large...considering it's a hobby.