Need a bit of help on the 600

[quarkx]

Hi all, I got a A600 in this week and I put in the 340 meg drive that the owner sent me. I am trying to install the drive (under 2.1) but the drive is not recognized (of course). Is there any generic settings I can install this under?
The drive is a Mini Stor 340. as you can see by the picture, there are no "settings" or specs on the drive. I have hunted through Google, but there is nothing on it. Thanks.

[quarkx]

Thanks, Save,
Will look into it, there was something listed under SCSI, but I switched it to AT (Assuming it would be because of IDE), will give that a go.

[quarkx]

Which Kickstart version you have might be of relevance too...

I put kickstart 3.1 in yesterday, I am still debating what workbench to install.
@save, did what you said, it only shows the drive at 84 megs not 340! I guess I will live with that for now.

Also, another dumb question, but my workbench 3.1 disks (i have 3 factory copies and all 3) are toast (just the work bench disk). I have a coppie on .Iha file. what do I need to do to make a disk, just copy as is?
Convert it to .DMS or unpack it and copy the unpackaged version to disk?

[quarkx]

If the .lha file is an archive of the entire original disk then I think you should be able to just extract it directly to a floppy, or you could extract it somewhere else and then copy the contents of that extracted directory. Converting it to a .dms file first is quite pointless, imo.

thanks, i will try that.

[quarkx]

Since you've got a KS 3.1 ROM, may as well use WB 3.1 too. So HDToolBox, after doing a read from the drive only shows 84mb? That sucks. And you're positive you're looking at the total drive size, not just a partition? When you go to install that drive, now you can play with the head & cylinder settings to force HDToolBox to see it as a 340mb drive. Change the cylinders until the size is a few mb shy of 340. Save and reboot. You should then be able to make use of the entire capacity and partition away...

Sounds good, I was thinking 3.0 because this A600 has no ram expansion YET. but I will go 3.1