A600 with large harddrive

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Hello
I own an A600 with kick 3.1, 2 Mb chipmem and a 30 Gb harddrive(yes it's 30 Gb!). I running Workbench 3.1.

The problem is that I am not able to se more than 8 Gb of the harddrive. I know that there is a limit of 8 Gb when your are running OS3.1, but you should be able to patch this by installing scsi_ide43_23.lha. This patch updates my kick from 40.5 to 43.23.

I have installed this patch and fastfilesystem 45.13, but I still can't se more than 8 Gb! Why not?

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Matt_H wrote:
If you don't mind my asking, why do you need a 30GB drive on an A600? It just seems a bit excessive, that's all.

I know :-D I could not find a used HD under 4 Gb so when I saw a cheap 30 Gb I bought it. I didn't know at the time that it would be a problem :-(

I have tried ffstd64 from aminet before I tried with ffs 45.13, but that didn't work either.

I have also tried with HDinstTools, but that didn't work either. I have also tried with IDE-fix software but doesn't work either :-(

I have also tried with the NSDpatch, but that doesn't work.

Is there no one out there who can tell me how to use a 30 Gb harddrive with OS3.1? Using the internal IDE connector on A1200/600.

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The problem is that SFS only works with 68020 or higher CPU's.

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Sounds great :-D
But you have an Apollo card - I don't :-(
Doesn't the card get very hot? Is it stable?

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Matt_H wrote:
Sorry I couldn't help on the hard drive front :-(

Don't worry about it - nobody else has been able to help  :-)
This isn't the first forum I have asked for help regarding this.

I have heard about this new production of the Apollo card, but I don't think I will buy one. If it was a stable and reliable card I would buy it, but I will not risk buying a card that will never work or the chip will die because of heat problems. If a want to spend more money I think I will buy an A1200 with a 1230/40 card.