Getting my large hard disk working on A1500

[Thomas]

Get SFS from Aminet and install it as described in the documentation. Then you can create partitions on the Buddha without any limitations, even with WB 3.1 and below. You can even make one big 40GB partition to boot from, if you like.

Note that this only applied to the Buddha. The internal IDE controller of an A1200 is different. It needs a less-than-4GB partition to boot from and load new drivers (IDEfix or OS3.5+). Only after the new drivers have been loaded the rest of the drive can be used.

now have ended up with 20 or so desktop icons for the drive

Why did you create so many partitions ?

all with no default tool

New partitions have to be formatted before they can be used. Select one at a time and choose "format disk" from the menu.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

I have plugged the drive into my PC and using WinUAE it shows up now as having 37GB free with 9,693KB in use.

Did you use "Add Harddrive" or "Add Directory" ? You have to use "Add Harddrive", otherwise the Amiga will not see what you did.

I am unable to partition it in WinUAE as the HDTool box does not save the 'uaehf.device' tooltype.

Run OS 3.9's HDToolbox from the emergency disk. It will ask you which driver to use.

Bye,
Thomas