Firstly I would have to say that a 12Gb is not the best disk to have
chosen for an A600!
The smaller the better in my opinion and personally I would have gone
for less than 2Gb.
The Workbench revision you will be running at won't allow for more
than 2Gb and when you reach this limit you'll start writing over the
first few megabytes. Also HDToolBox really doesn't like partitions
over 1Gb.
If you want you can upgrade to the latest HDToolBox and Workbench 3.5
or better for 2Gb+ but are you really going to fill that on an A600!?
There are only 4,000 Amiga games out there you know!
:-D :-D :-D :-D
One other thing to remember with HDToolBox is when you first start to
SELECT DRIVE TYPE and READ CONFIGURATION, then save. This will allow
HDToolBox to correctly read in the drive's geometry to give your
partitions everything they need.
Then VERIFY FOR ERRORS to see if the drive surface has degraded and if
it has HDToolBox will tell you which "bad blocks" to "map out".
Allowing Workbench to write around these areas of the disk.
Then I would reccomend doing a FULL FORMAT from
Workbench->Tools->Format. This will help you should there be any
trouble with your HDToolBox settings and also clear unwanted data away
should you need to use DiskSalv to recover anything. On a 12Gb drive
this could take a long time so only use this on 2Gb-or-less drives.
:-)
