OS3.9 More Newbie Questions

[EchsBachs]

Ok,

So ive been officially breaking my A4000 about twice a day now. And I have reloaded OS3.9 more times than I care to remember LOL

My question is this. On an A4000 with OS3.9 do I need to do all those patches I see around the net to get full use of my 233gig HD?

What I mean is I see in the documents for OS3.9 it supports large drives and greater than 4gb partitions, But when I try to do this and format drives I get not a dos disk and it crashes...

Even if it doesn't see all of the 233gigs that much isnt as important to me as having a large work drive (maybe about 50gb).

I tried to do the SCSI patches I see around for the IDE bus, but maybe thats for 3.1? Because when I did it twice on 3.9 it completly blew up on me.. LOL

So basically, is there a guide, for someone like me, on how to make this happen?

[EchsBachs]

That is so true that is the worst part

I have had to spend hours so far recovering from that failing.. It's not fun.

So far 3 times I have used ExtractModule as the commands for the A4000 and bam, I get the file is too big, the machine locks, and Im back to building it all from scratch on 3.1.. Not fun..

This is why I asked if there was a more detailed guide

Then the doc's say this line:

Now you can choose between installing the bugfix only (#?.ld.strip.pch
files) or bugfix plus coldstart patch (#?.ld.strip.NEVER.pch files). In
case that you have IDE or NCR SCSI devices installed (from which you want
to boot), you *must* install the normal patch.

Um.. What's the "normal" patch I must install? LOL

But, the fact that ExtractModule on the scsi.device keep's killing my machine and I have to do this convoluted WinUAE build of the hard drive to start all over again because I don't have workbench 3.1 floppies, makes me very nervous about all this

[EchsBachs]

Yup. Same deal.

ExtractModule: Module too large error.

So I can't even build the patch.

Anyone care to send me a patched scsi.device for an A4000 desktop with the stock IDE controller?

[EchsBachs]

Because its a working drive I had.

If I don't patch it, OS3.9 thinks it's a 7.2gig HD.

If I edit the drive manually, it shows up as a 233meg drive, but if I try to make more then 3 partitions it kills the system.

For example, I can make a 4gig boot and 10gig work, No problem

if I make 2 more 10 gig partitions, it's dead.

[EchsBachs]

Heh, I am defiantly not technically inclined, but thanks everyone for your advice.

What's interesting is now I threw in an 80gig IDE drive, and HDtoolbox sees it as 74.5gig (which is fine). But when I go to make my partitions, it shows a max hard drive size of 27gigs...

Very strange?

Also I did install IDEfix, same deal.

Would getting a 3rd party IDE adapter just solve all this?