« on: August 31, 2008, 08:40:11 PM »
I've used a Buddha in my A2000. What seems to have happened is that is has split your hard drive up into 4GB partitions in order to be compatable with FSF by default.
I put an 80GB drive in my A4000 using the FastATA controller and ended up with 18 icons on the screen!
The hard drive partition program that comes with OS3.1 sucks at setting up large drives or guessing their configurations.
If you have a small hard drive handy then do this:
Set up a small 1-4GB FFS partition on the hard drive and install OS3.1. Install your Buddha prefs program so that you have your CD ROM functional.
Attach you BIG hard drive as a slave, copy the SFS file system to your small drive and create an emergency boot disk. MAKE SURE YOU ELECT TO COPY OVER YOUR BUDDHA SETTINGS WHEN PROMOPTED.
Boot from the emergency disk and use the 3.9 HD Toolbox to set up your drive:
1. Read the configuration
2. Go to the partitions and add the SFS filesystem.
3. Partition the drive with one large partition and make sure you select SFS and make the drive bootable.
4. Save your changes.
5. Quick format the drive.
6. Either install OS3.9 directly to it or install it to your small hard drive and later copy the entire contents of the small drive to the large drive and keep the small drive as an emergency back-up.
Now enjoy your new 40GB drive.
I have 2 x 80GB drives in my A4000 split into 4 partitions of 40GB. The second drive is just a backup of the first. I use OPUS to simply drag the contents of the first drive to the second. If the first drive ever goes down or I install something that screws it up then I can simply roll back by booting from the 2nd drive and copying the contents back to the first.
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