Amiga 500 HDD Blues

[skurk]

Hmm.. Is it a new (or big capacity) hdd inside the AlfaData?  Try setting MaxTransfer to 0x1fe00 in HDToolBox or HDInst and retry.

[skurk]

I went through the same mess on my A4000 (also kick 3.1).  It detected the disk allright, but the drive started {bleep}ing up, especially when overwriting files (just appended to the file until the partition was full.)

I have no idea if our problems are related at all, but my solution were as follows: I ripped the drive out of the Amiga, did a partition+format on a PC (WinUAE), re-inserted it and everything has worked like a charm ever since.

If you have a SCSI card in your PC, give it a try.  It might just work.