Looking for a patched scsi.device for large IDE drives

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Hi,

I have equipped my Amiga 1200 with a 160GB IDE drive which I primarily intent to use with Linux but also AmigaOS 3.9. I am using AmigaOS 3.9 with BB2. For using the full capacity of the hard disk, I'd still need to patch my scsi.device with this bug fix [1]. I have tried to do that myself, but I found it too much of a hassle.

Could anyone possibly email me an appropriately patched scsi.device which I could use on my A1200?

Cheers,

Adrian

> [1] http://de4.aminet.net/driver/media/SCSI4345p.readme

for larger hardrives you don't need any patched scsi.device if you use PFS3 direct scsi version (pfs3ds)
you can get PFS3 free on aminet
I have a 80gb hardisk connected on my A1200 using the normal scsi device in rom ( no patch no reboot)
however the first partition must be minor than 2gb...otherwise the hardisk will not boot
in my case I have 2 partitions workbench 2gb and work 76 gb

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I was under the impression that PFS3ds supports at best 8GB HD up to Kickstart 3.1.
If it works for you then what can I say Gz \o/

it works up to 8gb if you don't have installed NSD patch...who  patch scsi.device on the fly
NSD patch is needed to the 2nd partition to be mounted correctly out of 8gb area
in wb 3.1 or wb3.0 you need to install it adding NSDpatch in the startup-sequence....
in OS3.9 NSDpatch  is included is loaded automatically via setpatch
I like this because there is no need to install any new scsi.device who forces the computer to reboot

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btw,

 I was wrong about what I said that pfs3ds needs NSD patch...it doesn't need it...just tested it removing the NSD patch config file in devs
PFS3ds  works perfect without NSD patch and support big partitions...tested up to 76 gb with the standart scsi.device v39 in rom
who needs NSD patch to work with big partitions is fastfilesystem v45

however seems the NSD patch is needed to make HDtoolbox works correctly...otherwise HDtoolbox can'tt recognize the drive correctly or you can't set the correct drive parametrs when the drive is virgin or unformatted
I remember I installed NSDpatch + and scsi.device v43 when I purchase the 80gb hardisk
after you set the drive and you did the PFS3 partitions in hdtoolbox...you can remove those patches safety...there are not needed anymore

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PFS3AIO works great, although I had to switch back to SFS with my FastATA to get the drive to talk to the FastATA controller at full speed.

I just tested this version...is a version done by Toni- winuae author
it doesn't support big partitions without a new scsi.device
seems is hack or patch based on the PFS3 common version but no based on the direct scsi version

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True... but if you burn a custom ROM then no reboot is needed and you also put some nice and newest modules

yep you can do your own romset with new modules..but you need a rom-burner (I haven't one)
anyways there aren't interesting modules for me unless the new ram-handler and the new trackdisk.device
I did a custom rom for winuae replacing only those 2 modules