SFS problems

[vk3heg]

Framiga wrote:
Hi Gav

take a look at this SFS thread or with the Search function here, every thread "SFS+Thomas" related :-)

Great information in that thread (have book marked it)..

I have a question about large drives. I have a GVP Impact Series II A500-HD+ with 3.12s/3.2a roms (acording to the little sticker) and would like to get a 8gig segate drive going with it. I have tryed to use this drive, but the gvp fastprep software thinks that the drive is 244mb.

Will using the SFS file system get past this or do I need to find someone with newer roms first? (anyone have newer version roms?)

Btw: it's been many years since I last used my ami... I've only just come back in the past few weeks, after upgrading the rom/os to 3.1

Edit: That should be a 4gig hd

[vk3heg]

Thomas wrote:

I don't know if the FastPrep software does anything special to the drive. You should try if you could use on of the standard prep programs like HDToolBox (version 3.5 or 3.9 preferred) or HDInstTool.

I have tryed to use the HDToolbox that comes with 3.1. But it just sits there and does nothing. No drives get listed. I have even placed a copy of the gvpscsi.device into the expansion directory of a copy of the install disk. This also didn't work.

[vk3heg]

amije wrote:

vk3heg wrote:
I have tryed to use the HDToolbox that comes with 3.1. But it just sits there and does nothing. No drives get listed.

i don't remember how it is defined in os 3.1 but in 3.9 in the .info file of hdtoolbox there is a tooltype to determine the scsi device that you want to search and another to display all of the devices that are available. if it is set correctly, after you run the hdtoolbox there is a prompt who asks you to choose the right device.

This might sound like a newbie question (at was back before 1991 when I last used an amiga [os/wb 1.3]. But how do I check the tooltype?

[vk3heg]

Hyperspeed wrote:
Select the icon, hold the right mouse button down then from the Workbench menu select Icons->Information.

To edit the tooltype(/s) just click on one and edit in the box below. Click save to complete.

Thanks. I have now got my gvp drive(s) being detected by hdtoolbox. Now just to find newer roms for the gvp... as it still thinks that my 4gig hd is only 244mb.