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HDToolBox reporting wrong size
« on: August 12, 2011, 03:33:33 AM »
Having just accidently killed the old drive in my amithlon/os3.9 box Ive replaced it with an older 80gig one. All well and good, but trying to prepare the hdd with hdtoolbox shows it as a much smaller drive (18.7 gig if I recall). Experimenting I tried changing the drive geometry (head, cylinders, etc.) until the size closely matched the actual drive. While this appears to work (partitions created/formatted/files added) Im not convinced all is exactly right and there appears to be slight pauses in hdd access every now and again. Can anyone tell me please how to adjust the drive geometry correctly ?
Thanks in advance

p.s. for those unfamiliar with amithlon it behaves the same as an actual 68k amiga, so advice that would apply to a "real" amiga will mostly apply here too.
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.