Ellis wrote:
I'm having a problem with my A4000 power tower.
I have a similar Power Tower MK-II setup, not exactly like yours, but close -
http://mikerye.homeip.net/about_my_computers.html.
Anyway, first thing - always keep your boot partition as the first partition on the HD, and always keep it under 4 Gig. 1 Gig is plenty! Do this regardless of the version of AmigaOS you are running. Even if you have OS 3.9 installed, it is not actually in use until the first SetPatch reboot that it does which puts in the patches for big HDs amongst other things. Because of that is why you need to keep the boot partition under the 4 gig barrier - under 2 Gig is an even better idea.
Install OS 3.1 to the 1 Gig partition you created. CrossDOS should work fine for you once you drag and drop the PC0 icon from Storage/DOSDrivers into DEVS:DOSDrivers and reboot (simply double-clicking on it might work, too). Just make sure you use 8.3 file names when dealing with the files on the disks. Download AmiCDFS from Aminet on your PeeCee, and transfer it over to the miggy. Install that. Then you should be able to install OS 3.9.
OS 3.9 can see and use drives bigger than 4 Gig easily. After you get it installed, you can use its version of HDToolBox to set up your 6 Gig HD the way you want it. Back up files back and forth between your two HD's as needed in order to get things the way you want. Once you have it all set, I would recommend using one HD to back up the other. Have a boot partition on each HD, with different boot priorities set in HDToolBox. My A4000T has 3 boot partitions, all with the exact same files but different boot priority settings. There's one on each of my three HDs. If I have a failure of some sort, I simply boot from a different one by selecting it from the Early Startup Screen. Every night I have a script run from EZCron that creates my "hot backups" on each HD.
