A1200, 30gb hdd, installation help?

[cathalferr]

I got myself an A1200 recently, and I have started down the road of getting it up and running as a portable games machine.

I upgraded to 3.1 roms, and I have a 30gb 2.5" hdd for it as well, and I have a Blizzard 1230 IV on the way, and I have an A500 powersupply to help with the extra power draw. Also I have a pcmcia network card on the way too. I have copies of wb3.0 and wb3.1 on floppy and wb3.9 on cd.

I have a couple of questions.

I have the harddrive installed fine, but I am having difficulty partitioning it correctly. Any partition of any size above about 3.1gb comes up as 'not a valid dos disk'.
The other partitions at the start of the disk are fine, and I have installed wb3.1 there. I know I won't be able to access >4gb until I get a couple of files onto the wb install.

I have tried to read the harddrive under my pc linux install  but I can't read the partition table. Is it possible to read and write to an amiga harddrive e.g. under winuae?

Thanks..

Cathal.,

[cathalferr]

I will have difficulty in getting 3.9 onto the 1200, as I have seen elsewhere that having a cdrom as well as the harddrive puts the chipset at risk. Is this true?

I'll get a 44pin to 2 40pin cable, to get os3.9 onto it if it is not a risk. I can power the hdd and cdrom seperately from a pc power supply, and I have a 3.5 to 2.5 adapter also.

Thanks for the quick reply.
Cathal.

[cathalferr]

nm^2