how to format an ide hard drive on A4000

[blobrana]

Hum,
you are doing everything ok...

Have you tried a soft reset... hold down the ctrl-amigaL-amigaR keys?

Partition them with 2 x 4 gb and a 2gb...

[blobrana]

@TjLaZer
Good idea...
Info here



@the rest
What?
Doesn`t anybody here read pervious posts...?
Can you not read his/her mind?

Do you think she/he`s lying when he said he started HDtoolbox?

The hard drive isn`t spinning up in time to be recognised by the computer - solution reset to format...






or not...

[blobrana]

Hehe,
soft reset to get the spin speed of the HardDrives up, so the computer recognises it...

There’s another thread here on how to change the maxtransferspeed...

But the important thing here is to get the HD recognised...and formatted so you can install the OS...




Let us know how you got on...

[blobrana]

@Thomas
Hum,
perhaps....




Yes i know he created 2 partitions so it was recognised by HDToolbox...
But he cannot see  anything, not even an NDOS when it boots , which implies that not even the first partitions is seen...my guess of a slow spin up is a plausible solution , if you think it`s mud, then please tell me why that solution would not be correct... :-)

[blobrana]

Doh!

lucky you thought of the pin settings...

As for the CD rom drivers
 
have a look  here


:-)

[blobrana]

Hum,
of course.
tnx for correction.
And for future referance;
 The A1200 series machines ship standard with IDE drives. Commodore modified the drive setup utility, HDToolbox, to be able setup IDE drives, but did not change the setup defaults from SCSI drive defaults to IDE drive defaults. HDToolbox will list the drive type as SCSI when the drive is actually IDE.

The particular SCSI setting which causes the most trouble for IDE drives is the "MaxTransfer" setting, which sets the maximum size of chunk of data that the system will try to exchange with the drive at a single pass. MaxTransfer is a size, not a speed setting. As such, when MaxTransfer is set too high, data transfer actually slows down, because communications between the host and the drive become garbled. When Maxtransfer is set properly, then the drive and the system communicate very smoothly, and much faster.

Commodore originally shipped the A4000 with Seagate ST3144A drives, which are IDE drives that can operate using the SCSI default settings, in particular the "MaxTransfer" setting, which is a figure of "0xffffff". Virtually no other make/model IDE drives can do that. Most operate well with a figure of "0x1fe00".