Setting up an 80Gb hard drive on OS3.9

[jenfry]

yep. Its mot likely an issue with scsi.device, you need to patch it to see beyond 8GB. You can find the patch on aminet. However, a better solution IMO is to install idefix. Thats what I did and I am running an 80GB Samsung drive on the internal IDE port alongside an IDE DVD-Writer. I am also using Smart File System, but PFS3 I have heard is also good.

Also to fix HD size you can use FixHDDsize by Thomas Rapp - http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/download.html

Weed

I'm trying to install a 20GB hard drive on a 1200 with accelerator board; I have 3.0 kickstart and I'm trying to use FastROMAtaPatch for the scsi.device and fixhdsize, but the maximum amout is always 8GB!!
What can I do??

[jenfry]

The answer is in the posts above.

Run IDEFIX, it contains a number of patches to Scsi.device that are sessential, and run a better File system than FFS, like SPS or something.

I have a 20GIG in my A1200.

Buf IDEfix is free? I found idefix97.lha, is the one you are talking about?

[jenfry]

IDEFIX is not free, you can 'Register it' through Vesalia, but it is FULLY functional in its downloadable state, yes IDEFix97 from Aminet. Check the docs.

[edit] from Readme file.

"Restrictions of unregistered version: Nag requesters, otherwise fully functional."

From the idefix manual:
   To use a new harddrive or removable media you need to format it first using the program HDToolBox. This program is located in the Tools directory of your Workbench partition. For instructions, consult your Amiga operation manual.
As you can see idefix does nothing about preparing the hard drive... the original hdtoolbox and the alternative one configure the drive 8GB maximum.
I'll continue reading the idefix manual, but I think it will not help me.
There's nothing more to read about that. The HD must be prepared with hdtoolbox or similar before proceding and they all see it as 8GB, as mentioned before...

[jenfry]

Your sort of stuck in chicken and egg situation. What to do is construct a custom boot floppy, which includes idefix. You can boot the A1200 using it and then run HDToolBox to configure the HDD. When configuring the HDD create a small no more than 4GB boot partition and isntall workbench on it. For my set up I have my 80GB drive configured with a 2GB boot partition (DH0) and a 2GB cache partition (DH1) and the rest is (DH3).

Weed

I made it, I copied the idefix program in workbench:c and added it to the startup-sequence before setpatch;
workbench starts up, idefix window opens, then I confirm with the yes option;
if I try to start the original hdtoolbox or hdinsttools, they start checking the attached scsi devices and then guru meditation!!
Some ideas???
It's a 1200 with DKB Cobra 68030 with 16 MB edo ram, hd 20 GB...

It's ok now, I put idefix AFTER setpatch, and now everything works

It's not really easy, people... Too many years passed