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[Thomas]

The numbers you quote are the physical geometry of the drive, this is not what you have to enter into HDToolbox. 512 ist not the number of sectors but the number of bytes per sector.

What does it do if you try to read the drive info ?

Do you have the install disk of Workbench 3.1 at hand ? You should use its HDToolbox, it's more advanced.

Or try HDInstTool from Aminet.

Or you could just enter these values:

Cylinders = 8322
Heads = 16
Sectors per track = 63
Sectors per cylinder = 1008

This will create a logical 4GB drive which will perfectly fit onto your physical 4.5GB drive and there is no danger to partition an area outside the first 4GB of the drive (which would lead to data loss).

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

Every number bigger than 2GB will be reported as negative, be it HDD size or partition size. This is not an issue of wrong ROMs but a matter of using very old software. Back then nobody could imagine that ever a HDD larger than 500 MB would exist. Therefore nobody took care of integer overflows, either.

This is normal and does not harm. The only disadvantage is that you have to guess what the real numbers could be.

BTW, the numbers you entered result in a 12.6 GB drive, not 1.3GB. That's the same issue as with the negative values: numbers larger than 4GB wrap around to 0.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

also if i have KS2.04 could i install os 3.1 on my A2000?

No, you can't. Most new features of Workbench 3.1 need functions only available in Kickstart 3.0+. Those parts of WB 3.1 which work on Kick 2.0 are already present in WB 2.1.

Bye,
Thomas