Validating HDD???

[K7HTH]

I am trying to install a WD 6GB HD contained in an IVS Trumpcard 500 AT for one of my A500s. I have 2.0 ROMS and OS2.1 booted. I used the IVS installation disk to partition the drive and got the limit of 2GB, no problem I can deal with this. The problem is after I get the hard drive icon on the WB , I cannot copy to it because it says it is 100% full. When I try to format the drive I get the warning the drive is NOT validated. Even quick formatting or initializing from the IVS program does not validate the drive. So when I reboot the A500 by floppy (because there is no OS on the drive to boot) the HD icon disappears from the WB. I run the IVS disk again and there the partition is listed. I delete and redo the partition to have the same symptoms arise.

Is there some arcane technique I need to perform to Validate this hard drive?

[K7HTH]

Argus wrote:
I second what Thomas says.  Try not going quite so close to the 2Gb limit and use smaller partitions.  I believe NSDPatch.cfg under OS3.5+ has a line for the IVS controller to recognize drives >4Gb.  I'd try a small 100mb partition, install 2.0 and take it from there.  Maybe later upgrade to 3.1 rom or softkick to 3.1 and then install 3.5, 3.9 etc.

I have 3.1 ROMS for the A500 but I have it in the A2000 at the moment. Do you mean to say that OS 3.9 would be viable on an A500? Even with an AdSpeed2 bringing the CPU to 14.2 MHz along with an Adram 540 with 4 MB is less than the minimum requirements for OS3.5 and 3.9 I would think.

Thanks for the tips on smaller partitions, I will implement them. I thought since I was able to partition at least 2GB  with the AdIDE2 I could get the same to work with the Trumpcard.