How to prepare 40Gb Drive for A600

[XDelusion]

So I partitioned out a 40Gb drive for my A600 under WinUAE using FFS. It made the 3.9Gb partitions, saved, rebooted, then will not let me format them.

What approach must I use? I tried to install PFS in WinUAE for use, but the installer was broken on that end for some reason and when ever I select PFS (after a manual install) it only gives FFS as an option anyhow, plus the HDTool for PFS does not see my card.

[XDelusion]

I've got a 030 with 32Mb of RAM, so I'm set in that regard. As for why this has been problematic, I don't know. I've set up a 8Gb CF card before with PFS and had no issues. The HDTool (on the real Amiga) saw the drive just fine, and I was able to select PFS (custom FFS) from the men with ease, though it looks like with this drive I'm setting my partitions to high.
 Anyhow, the reason I am trying a real hard drive and one so large at that, is because A. with a CF or SD card, Workbench always ends up telling me one of my partitions is corrupt, even after a fresh format and install. I always end up having to back up that partition, re-format, then I'm fine. Secondly, the 40Gb hard drive is as small as I could get my hands on for free.

 I'll play around, see if I can get it, if not I guess I'll dance with the devil again, aka the CF and SD cards, though it really would be nice to use that 40Gb cause I want to install Half Life 2 on my hard drive.

[XDelusion]

If your turbo board is an ACA630 you would be better off putting the updated scsi.device inside a custom Rom and using the ACA's Maprom facility

 I'd love to see a guide for that as well!

[XDelusion]

Sweet, thank you, I'll look it all over.

Since Maprom on the ACA cards adds so much performance it's really a no brainer to put update modules inside, I don't see how using IDEfix would be better?  Unless the OP has a 4way IDE device and is using CD/etc.

@XDelusion,

There are some guides around for building your own custom Roms, using the maprom fuction it's self is dead easy, it's just a case of adding the following declaration to the first line of your startup sequence:

c:acatune -maprom devs:ks31.rom :NIL>

This assumes ACATune is installed in sys:c/ and your Rom image (called ks31.rom) is in sys:devs/

See mfilos' guide here at Amibay about making custom Roms:

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=11935