More SFS issues

[McVenco]

I've got a 4.3 GB Hitachi harddrive which I've been trying to install for about a month now, but I can't seem to get it right. I've tried to partition the drive, using HDInstTools under Workbench 3.0 and also with HDToolBox under OS3.9 (I have 3.1 roms, but no 3.1 disks), and it all seems to go well, but apparently something does not work properly.

I want to have 3 partitions, however only DH0 and DH1 show up on the workbench screen. DH2 doesn't seem to be anywhere (although it's visible in the early startup screen). Same goes with 4 partition (only first 2 are visible).
When I make 1 partition, then SFSFormat gives a guru when executed.

I seriously have no idea what this could be. The drive is correctly recognised by both HDInstTools and HDToolBox, so I guess the problem lies elsewhere...

[McVenco]

I've got 1.236 here. I've copied the correct ID numbers from SFS to HDToolBox.

But about formatting: when you use the standard WB format, you format the drive as FFS, and not SFS, right? (at least, that's what I recall being told in an earlier topic)

[McVenco]

:bump: (sort of...)

I've tried once again to get my harddisk installed. Still, the last partition does not show up on the workbench screen, although it IS visible in the early startup menu.

Example: If I make 2 partitions, only 1 shows up, if I make 5 partitions, only 4 are visible in Workbench. When I try to SFSFormat the last partition, it gives me a guru.

I'm not getting desperate yet, but I'm getting more and more clueless on what the hell could be wrong.

To answer the obvious questions: I use KS/WB 3.1, HDToolsBox from 3.1, SFS version 1.236 and the standard IDE controller on the A1200 mainboard. HDInstTools gives me the same problem, so that's not it...

Anyone? Pwetty pwease? :-(

[McVenco]

Reducing the size to <4GB works alright, but I'd like to use the whole drive, and maybe even a bigger a drive in the future, so settling for <4GB is not really what I want (it would be sufficient at the moment though...)

How can I use another scsi.device?

[McVenco]

stopthegop wrote:
Are you defining your partitions in terms of sectors or in terms of megabytes?  

In sectors/cylinders. HDToolBox can't specify a certain number of megabytes, only by dragging the sizebar.

Erol wrote:
http://www.gregdonner.org/os39faq/installtips.html

Have a read on this site,  i know theres alot of guys using SFS BUT,  try FFS or PFS3 see if you get the same results when using auto set-up of the partitions.

I'll give that a go then. I've made a 150MB Workbench partition, and will try to partition the rest after I installed OS3.9.

Thanks for the help so far...