A600 with KS37.300 not being kind with new HDD

[Daedalus]

I'm a little bit rusty at WB2.05 installs, but are you sure you have a filesystem that the 2.05 ROMs can understand installed on the drive? If you install it on an A1200 you'll get the 3.0 version of FFs installed, and it won't boot on the 600... Make absolutely sure you've got hte 2.05 version of FFS in L: on your boot floppy before you install it with HDToolbox...

Failing that (and I don't want to insult your intelligence here), but you did check the automount option in HDToolbox? It may or may not be stored differently between the WB2 and WB3 versions of HDToolbox, so checking it on the 1200 might not necessarily mean it'll automount under WB2...

[Daedalus]

@Piru

Actually, the only incompatible new feature in 3.0/3.1 is DirectoryCache (DC). Using 37.300 ROM FFS should be fine, assuming no DC is used.

Wasn't even thinking on levels of Directory Cache since I've never used it on a HD, but what I mean is that if the drive was prepped with the 3.0 version of FFS that was on the 1200, but the filesystem wasn't actually installed in the RDB then the filesystem in 2.05 wouldn't recognise it. I've had problems along that line before, and my A600 has 37.350 ROMs. Choosing to update the version of FFS in HDToolbox should rectify this problem if that's the case, assuming he has the file system available on disk at all...

It's not. The automount has always been stored in the PART RDB block the same way.

Good to know, thanks :-)

I know I have a different version of the ROM in mine, but I had no problem installing and formatting a 1.4GB HD in my 600 using the WB2.05 floppies and RDBPrep (I think)...