Need a bit of help on the 600

[save2600]

What do you mean by not recognised? Using HDToolbox, make sure in tooltypes that the device=scsi.device. You should then be able to install and format her. *Should* being the operative word. I've got two HD's here that for whatever reasons are completely useless to an Amiga. I wonder if the HD you have has been changed/modified to the point the Amiga doesn't want to play with it.

Oh and HDtoolbox should be able to determine its proper size, assuming you can get it to cooperate. Just click the 'read drive config' gadget or whatever it is called.

[save2600]

Thanks, Save,
Will look into it, there was something listed under SCSI, but I switched it to AT (Assuming it would be because of IDE), will give that a go.

Yeah, this has come up lots. That was pretty creative of you, but the Amiga's IDE port still needs scsi.device pointed to it. Really, really strange - but true! Also, be careful when playing around with that tiny 2.5" HD cable. It's pretty easy to insert it the wrong way.

[save2600]

I put kickstart 3.1 in yesterday, I am still debating what workbench to install.
@save, did what you said, it only shows the drive at 84 megs not 340! I guess I will live with that for now.

Since you've got a KS 3.1 ROM, may as well use WB 3.1 too. So HDToolBox, after doing a read from the drive only shows 84mb? That sucks. And you're positive you're looking at the total drive size, not just a partition? When you go to install that drive, now you can play with the head & cylinder settings to force HDToolBox to see it as a 340mb drive. Change the cylinders until the size is a few mb shy of 340. Save and reboot. You should then be able to make use of the entire capacity and partition away...