How do i add second hardrdive?

[carvedeye]

Hi all i have a towered amiga 1200 with os 3.9 installed and it has an ide controller with 2 ide ports on it i have my cd-rom slaved my harddrive is mastered on ide port 0 and i have now installed another harddrive (15 gig) on the ide port 1 but when i boot into workbench i dont see the hard drive. i have used idefix's find device but it does not see it what am i doing wrong?

[carvedeye]

have you formatted it? dont know if that'll make a difference.

Justin

it does not even show up in workbench thats the problem if it showed up i could then format it.

[carvedeye]

The system doesn't know anything about the HDD until you create RDB and some partition(s) on it via HDToolBox (or some alternative).

what is a good alternative to hdtoolbox?

[carvedeye]

What's wrong with HDToolBox? It should do it.

Anyway.. if drive doesn't show up in HDToolBox, have you ran idefix on startup-sequence? Only port 0 works without software on idefix. Or did OS3.9 handle it automatically? Hmm..

my workbench disks are corrupt i have tryed putting them into the df0: but it wont read the install disk? that why i need an alternative