Help needed on reinstalling from scratch

[djkoelkast]

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Please start reading from this post:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35420


As what's in this first post already has been resolved. Thanks.












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After a long time I decided to reinstall my Amiga 4000 as the original harddrive doesn't work anymore.
Unfotunatly I'm unable to find all disks that came with it so I'm a little stuck now.

What I've managed to do is:

Boot install 3.1 and setup the 1st partition of the harddisk, format it and install WB 3.1

Downloaded the drivers for the Cyberstorm/Cyberscsi that is in my A4000 and installed them.

So far so good, it also comes with CDFS on the disk. When I run the SCSI utility it recognises the CD-ROM drive but I can't get it to work, although CD0: is mounted (but on CLI it can't find it), it does react to EJECT, START and STOP from this tool.

How can I get the CD-ROM to work in order to install OS 3.9

Any help is welcome! Thanks!

[djkoelkast]

Fond it, IDEFix does the job (I thought this was only for IDE).

So now getting the stuff to install, when I run into something new I'll let you know.

By the way: is it possible to install OS 3.9 directly over WB 3.1? When I try INSTALLER it says it can't find a disk with 40MB free and RAM doesn't work...

[djkoelkast]

Hmm ok, actually the install of 3.9 went OK until the harddisk went broken, but I have some spare ones.

I do have the original 3.5 and 3.9 disks, but as all my other disks they're lost and I already spent 2 days searching  

This is really annoying as it also has original (legal) registered versions of MUI, iBrowse, Miami Deluxe, MagicWB and so on. Really good software I got with this A4000, but I have no clue where those disks are.

So I have to do with what I have stored on the pc...

[djkoelkast]

Finally managed to find my OS 3.9 CD, this is the correct one.

So I formatted the harddrive, installed 3.1 but then it crashes. When I remove the startup-sequence lines about addbuffers on df0: and failat 21 and the other line then it boots fine.

So I installed IDEFix, it also works fine.
Booted up, loaded the installation of OS 3.9 and made the Emergency disk.
When I boot the Emergency disk it crashes (black screen, stops loading, after a while a guru appears).

So then I decided to install 3.9 from the cd while in 3.1, but the same result: booting lets it crash. Booting with no startup-sequence does work, but it can't find certain libraries (like workbech v44) to startup certain tools (like amidock).

Is this because of all the stuff that's in the Amiga and has no drivers installed yet?

There is a Cyberstorm + CyberSCSI MKII installed with an 68060, Multifacecard III, Ariadne II, Cybervision64 and a whole lot of memory (about 8mb or 16mb on the motherboard itself in 1 module and 128mb on the Cyberstorm).

Any ideas?

[djkoelkast]

Anybody who can help me out?

[djkoelkast]

That was actually the last thing to try, maybe I should install some drivers on 3.1 first before upgrading to 3.9?

[djkoelkast]

That site doesn't contain any drivers for my cards, so I guess I can pick them from here:

http://amiga.resource.cx/expansion.html

?

[djkoelkast]

Ok I got it and now everything worked fine except for lots of write errors on my harddisk on certain blocks. I don't understand why, maybe the harddisk is too fast? It's a 80GB 7200rpm IDE drive. I only used the 1st 4GB so far as Work: drive.

Or is this harddisk just broken?
When I press Retry I don't get the error again, but later it comes back on another block.

I'm thinking about building in a 2,5" harddisk with a converter cable as this doesn't take as much space, makes less noise (because I don't have to cool it) and keeps cooler.

[djkoelkast]

At least I now have a good Emergency disk, so reformatting is no problem.

I'll try this but I guess doing this every time will cost a lot of time. First MaxTransfer, reformat, reinstall, if it fails the next thing..

So I guess I can do the three things in once?

Thanks!

[djkoelkast]

When I change anything it doesn't accept the new settings.

For example:

I go into HDToolBox, change the MaxTransfer, click Ok, click Ok, Save changes to drive is grayed out. Same when I try to add the buffers.
As the partition is 4096 MB I calculated 1024 buffers (4096 / 100) * 25 and again, when I do this Save changes to drive is grayed out.

I removed all partitions and made new ones: the same happens. Everytime I click on Partition drive the values are set back to what they were before.

So I can't seem to make the changes?

[djkoelkast]

Because HDToolBox from the Emergency disk crashes (suspend/reboot).

I haven't worked for a while with my Amiga so I forget this stuff Thanks, I'll try again and learn

[djkoelkast]

Ok, it worked! No write errors anymore and it boots into 3.9 right away now, however (you knew this was gonna come ) f.e. Amidock crashes at boot:

Program Failed (errpr #80000004)
Wait for disk activity to finish.

Suspend - Reboot

I also get this on other tools like format. Others just refuse to start at all, like HDToolBox.

I have the drivers for my videocard installed, I have the 68060.library (and got rid of the 68040.library) from the website you told me.

I don't know what could be wrong now...again

[djkoelkast]

WB partition is 4GB as that was what HDTB suggested.
I got rid of the Amithlon stuff, just did a full format.

So you suggest I make my 1st partition about 1GB? I'll try it tomorrow. No problems with formatting 100 times, as long as the outcome is good.

BTW: Thomas I love your avatar, as I'm a big fan of Clever & Smart (which are called Paling & Ko here ;-))

[djkoelkast]

Hmmm deleted the partitions and made 1 partition of 1GB (1019mb) and set the values as said by Thomas, but the write errors are back, I'll try it again, but it's strange. Also HDToolBox from the Emergency Toolbox crashes with the 80000004 error...

[djkoelkast]

Well well, reinstalling is a LOT less easy than I thought. Now with the new settings and 1GB the write errors are gone but my Install 3.1 disk gives an error (c:version failed) and still AmiDock crashes and I can't use a lot of stuff because it simply does never start.

I really think these are driver related issues but it seems like it's going to take a lot of effort to get it all right...