Setting up an 80Gb hard drive on OS3.9

[Tumbleweed]

If only 8 GB is available it's not a file system problem but device driver AFAIK.

yep. Its mot likely an issue with scsi.device, you need to patch it to see beyond 8GB. You can find the patch on aminet. However, a better solution IMO is to install idefix. Thats what I did and I am running an 80GB Samsung drive on the internal IDE port alongside an IDE DVD-Writer. I am also using Smart File System, but PFS3 I have heard is also good.

Also to fix HD size you can use FixHDDsize by Thomas Rapp - http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/download.html

Weed

[Tumbleweed]

Your sort of stuck in chicken and egg situation. What to do is construct a custom boot floppy, which includes idefix. You can boot the A1200 using it and then run HDToolBox to configure the HDD. When configuring the HDD create a small no more than 4GB boot partition and isntall workbench on it. For my set up I have my 80GB drive configured with a 2GB boot partition (DH0) and a 2GB cache partition (DH1) and the rest is (DH3).

Weed

[Tumbleweed]

Glad to hear you sorted it.

Weed