A4000 won't mount HD

[Thomas]

When you connect a new drive as slave, the master drive will appear as "changed" in HDToolbox. Select the master and save the changes, then the slave's partitions will appear.

When you disconnect the slave HDD, you should do the same again. If you don't, the driver will try to find partitions on the CD drive. This slows down the boot process a lot.

[Thomas]

I don't remember this happening with the SCSI drives from My A3000 and A3000T

HDToolbox always sets the "last drive" flag on the drive with the highest unit number.

If it works or not depends firstly on whether the driver recognises and respects the flags and secondly on the order in which you add harddrives.

If for some reason on SCSI you started with a high unit number and added drives with lower numbers, then the oldest drive always stayed the "last" and you never had to change something.

The flag is made to speed up boot processing. If you keep partitioned drives with low unit numbers and non-partitioned drives with high numbers, then drives without partitions (CD drives, tape drives, scanners etc.) are not checked for partitions at boot time.