fastata and 4gb devices?

[Boing-ball]

Have you got the FastATA software installed? With the relevant syntax in your startup-sequence?

Also FastATA on the A1200 are a PITA. Dependent on version and software it maybe using its split option in the preferences program.

[Boing-ball]

Good call, I will check the preferences.

It's the oldest version, a MK-I EIDIE as I recall, Yes I agree, they can be a PITA, however going from it not working when I first resurrected the Amiga to now the speedup is impressive, even if it does hog the CPU.

I do have a blizzard scsi too, just a shame I've nothing to plug into it at the moment.

Yeah, MK 1 adapter software is very problematic. Have read the split option in the prefs won’t save. You have to play with use and save.

Personally would go Blizz SCSI as it has the advantages of DMA and less CPU overhead. But your choice.

[Boing-ball]

Hi,
did you try other filesystems like PFS3? (Aminet)
PFS3 can use "DirectSCSI"-commands in NO SPLIT-mode for handling partitions/hdd >4GB (PDS\0 as DosType).

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FastATA'99 offers you the following support for HDD > 4GB:

1. SPLIT: dividing a HDD into logical units > 4 GB,
2. NO SPLIT:  FastATA'99 supports the following:
                 NSD (New Style Device  - OS3.5),
                 TD64 (TrackDisk 64)
                 DirectSCSI commands.

It’s the FastATA preferences that cause the split options to appear. Unfortunately the older software has issues when you try NOT to use the split options.
You can’t use the newer versions as they refuse to work with older models. You can thank Elbox for that.