AdIDE not recognizing anything greater then 2.1gig

[TheMagicM]

I have a A500 w/1.3 roms, AdIDE2 w/a 3.2 gig 2.5" hard drive.  if I click 'Auto' to autoconfigure the hd it only gives it 2.1 gig yet it is a 3.2 gig.. is it a limitation w/1.3 or AdIDE ?  Is there a fix?

[TheMagicM]

yea it freaks out if I force it to recognize the complete 3.2 gig...

So I left it as 2.1.. 3 partitions and oh boy does it use up ALOT of memory... down to 16megs out of my 1meg.  Glad I have a ADRam 540 w/2megs coming in next week.

[TheMagicM]

yea, I meant 16k...lol.   I dont think I have buffers set too high because I didnt set them..unless ICD's software modified my startup-sequence.

[TheMagicM]

a 160meg should do fine.  I'll take pics of what I did.  I didnt like the way the Novia kit came with some 'stick on' tabs.. so what I did was drilled some tiny holes (4) on the top cover of the A500 about 3" to the right of the denise chip and have the drive on there.  Fits perfect.  I'll take pics later on tonight and post them.

[TheMagicM]

I think they got theirs on ebay.. I just happen to run into a guy that had a few so I bought two.  I may buy some more and put them in a A500 and ebay it.

[TheMagicM]

Ok here's some pics.. (800x600)

http://www.bartonekdragracing.com/webfilez/a500_1.JPG
http://www.bartonekdragracing.com/webfilez/a500_2.JPG
http://www.bartonekdragracing.com/webfilez/a500_3.JPG

http://www.bartonekdragracing.com/webfilez/a500hd.JPG
http://www.bartonekdragracing.com/webfilez/a500hd_internal.JPG

[TheMagicM]

Tjlazer:

Its just a cover, these things are a dime a dozen and I have a few A500's. LOL.   I didnt want to use the Novia bracket because it used 3 "stick on" type mounts and I didnt want to stick anything on the motherboard or chips.  

[TheMagicM]

I just picked up a very poor condition (DIRTY) A500 but it has a AdIDE in it!!! I will clean it up tonight to see if the AdIDE works.

-Alex

[TheMagicM]

It was in a box of stuff I bought from a guy locally.  I will test the AdIDE, if it works, I will sell it to you for $20 + USPS shipping, that sound ok?

[TheMagicM]

ok..no problem.  Let me test it tomorrow to see if it works then I'll send you some pics.

[TheMagicM]

TjLazer: U have a PM.  btw it works great! (links to pics will be in pm)

[TheMagicM]

KD7HTH:

I had the exact same problem... what I had was a 3.2 gig IDE and it would not recognize the size correctly so I entered it manually, well when I did that I recieved the error you had.  But if I left it alone it would recognize only 2.1 gig and would NOT give me the error you just recieved.  Sounds to me like its not recognizing the drive properly even though you say it is.

[TheMagicM]

have you tried a different drive?

[TheMagicM]

I still think its your hard drive.  I had similiar problems with mine until I switched to a quantum 540meg.