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Re: A600 with KS37.300 not being kind with new HDD
« on: February 21, 2005, 11:28:00 PM »
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I'm a little bit rusty at WB2.05 installs, but are you sure you have a filesystem that the 2.05 ROMs can understand installed on the drive? If you install it on an A1200 you'll get the 3.0 version of FFs installed, and it won't boot on the 600...

Actually, the only incompatible new feature in 3.0/3.1 is DirectoryCache (DC). Using 37.300 ROM FFS should be fine, assuming no DC is used.

Also to my knowlege all amiga fastfilesystems provided on disk (at least upto 3.0/3.1) are compiled for 68000 and KS V37++, except for one bug in the code: If requester would pop up, the filesystem crash on 2.x (iirc aminet has a patch for this particular bug).

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Failing that (and I don't want to insult your intelligence here), but you did check the automount option in HDToolbox? It may or may not be stored differently between the WB2 and WB3 versions of HDToolbox

It's not. The automount has always been stored in the PART RDB block the same way.

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What kind of ide controller have you got in the 600

A600 has the built-in IDE controller, similar to A1200 one. It's quite likely he uses it.

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and what ide software (scsi emulation modes etc )

It's the scsi.device in Kickstart ROM. SCSI emulations are irrelevant here, as the disk is only 40MB.

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and i dont think 2.1 supports 4Gb-> drives

40MB < 4GB.

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..try wb 3.1 witch will need 3.1 rom (this dont count for 1200 witch can run 3.1 from 3.0 roms) if you dont have 3.1 rom in the 600 i think u have a problem whith large disks..

2.05 (37.300) scsi.device indeed had some issues with large HDDs, however it should be fine upto 40MB.

It could be that KS 37.350 would still fix the problem (as it has some scsi.device fixes)... or maybe not. From this info it's pretty hard to speculate what the problem really is. :-\

Kickstart 2.0x / Workbench 2.05 info
 

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Re: A600 with KS37.300 not being kind with new HDD
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2005, 12:20:01 AM »
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but what I mean is that if the drive was prepped with the 3.0 version of FFS that was on the 1200, but the filesystem wasn't actually installed in the RDB then the filesystem in 2.05 wouldn't recognise it.

IMO this shouldn't happen, KS 2.x ROM FFS should read the filesystem just fine. At least that is my experience.

However, putting the latest FFS (for the particular OS) to the HDD's RDB can't hurt...
 

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Re: A600 with KS37.300 not being kind with new HDD
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2005, 07:27:10 AM »
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You need kickstart 37.350 to use a hard drive on an Amiga 600! 37.000 wont do. The "A600HD" came with the 37.350 rom......

you've been wasting your time with this I think. sorry. :/

Funny how the HDD appears with the HDToolBox then. It must be using some magic IR IDE link there...

Seriously:

37.299 - no IDE or PCMCIA support
37.300 - PCMCIA, HDD upto 40 MB (*)
37.350 - PCMCIA, HDD any size

(*) There are some reports of success of even bigger HDD with 37.300, however. YMMV.