Installing 20gb 2.5" HD in AMIGA A1200 please help!!

[Thomas]

Please post the complete output of Check4GB (use the Save button and cut & paste).

You cannot format any partition which has a "yes" in the ">4GB" column. You have to use quick format.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

its patched with nsdpatch from aminet

That's fine, but PFS3 does not support NSD, it only supports TD64. So the patch does nothing for you.

You could use SFS instead, SFS supports NSD.

Or use PFS3ds, then you don't need any patch.

In any case you will probably get problems when accessing past the first 8GB of the drive. This is due to a bug in scsi.device and can only be fixed by LoadV43Module or IDEfix or OS3.5/3.9. NSDPatch does nothing more than to translate NSD commands into SCSI commands. It does not fix bugs.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

check4gb says its patched

Could you please explain this. In your hardcopies it says "*" in the status column which means the partition does *not* work. It also says "N" and "S" which means the device suppports NSD and SCSI commands, but no TD64 commands. As PFS3 only supports TD64, the partition cannot work.

Check4GB also says the version of scsi.device is 40.12 which means it is original, not patched. So where does Check4GB say it is patched ? And what do you mean by "it" ?

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

The latest archives can be found here: http://os.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=de&page=37

It's not necessary to use 3.1 disks, you can use any WB version from 2.0 up to 3.1 and any Kickstart version from 2.0 up to 3.1 (with the Kickstart version being higher than or equal to the Workbench version).

LoadV43Module only works with Kickstart 3.1, but you can use Thor's LoadModule which works on any Kickstart version.

This has recently been discussed on a german forum. If you understand german, you can follow this guide: http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/bighdd/index.html

Bye,
Thomas