A1200 + New IDE HD Problem (it's there, but not?)

[Thomas]

"Please insert volume Harddisk into any drive !" :-)

Never saw this before. Seems like the HDD mistakenly identifies itself as a removable device. What happens if you enter Diskchange HD0: into the shell window ?

Did you boot with the Workbench disk and started HDToolbox from there or did you boot from the Install disk. You should do the latter. If you can get hold of some 3.1 floppies you should install the FastFileSystem V40 onto the HDD. Might be there is a bug in the V39 one. If the bug is in the V39 scsi.device you need a new Kickstart ROM.

Does the HDD have jumpers ? Perhaps there is one "identify as if no disk is present". (Of course it is labelled totally different so that nobody knows what it means).

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

bloodline wrote:

to low level format

DON'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Low level format is a quick way to kill an IDE drive.

Well, the SCSI command "low-level format" has a totally different meaning when sent to an IDE drive. Older HDDs might be killed by it but more modern drives usually ignore it. I've seen at least two drives on which the LLF command caused a reinitialisation of the internal bad-block list. So a drive which reported read errors in block 0 was revived by it because it got new place to store bad blocks in. Of course the drive was not really usable afterwards because bad blocks are not cured by initialising a list.

Bye,
Thomas