Amiga 500 HDD Blues

[Everblue]

Ok, I managed to install 3.1 Kickstart in my Amiga500, I have connected my AlfaData hdd enclosure to it. I am having problems getting the HDD to work though...

If I use Workbench 3.1's HDTOOLBOX, it lists no hard disks.

When I used HDINST from Aminet, it recognized my HDD, let me create a partition (I made a 1 gig partition) etc. After setting up the partition, I  let it reboot and when got back in Workbench 3.1 I can see the partition, which needs to be formatted.

When I use workbench's formatting tool it lets me give it a name etc, but after a while, it says not a valid dos disk, or something like that

Any ideas what am I doing wrong?


Thanks!  :-D

[Everblue]

Hi, its a 20 gig hard drive... which I just took out from a PC.

Ok I did as you said:

1. In HDToolbox I cannot do it because it doesnt even 'see' the hard disk

2. In HDInstall I created a 750meg partition again and rebooted.

Workbench 'sees' the hard drive as a non dos disk, so I select it and used workbench format utility...

After a while showing "Initialising...." it gives a not a Dos disk error or something likee that

This is driving me mad

Why doesnt HDToolbox see the drive?

[Everblue]

No it sees at as an 8g drive.

I have noticed that once I create partitions with HDInst and restart, and check the partitions again with HDInst, they are 'gone'.

The drive has no gig limit jumper...

Any ideas? I dont have any other HDDs at my disposal  :getmad:

What if I use another file system -can I get the  drive to be seen as 20gigs? Maybe thats why I cannot format the partition.

[Everblue]

Yeah I did that and HDToolbox does see my hard disk now, but only as 163 megs (its a 20gig)...

I created a partition but when I tried to format it, it said not a valid dos disk.

I think I am gonna try and get another hard drive, probably my amiga does not like this one.