Amiga 1000 and supra hard drive setup

[melott]

I have an A1000 with a RocHard harddrive.
And the circumstances are simular. With the
RochHard I have to format and partition the
drive with the Rochard software and let it
install the OS 1.2, then I have to go back
and install- upgrade the OS 1.2 to OS 3.1.
Its not really a problem, after the drive
is bootable just go back in and do an
install of your OS 2.xx.

As far as Low-Level formatting, you 'DO NOT'
low-level format an IDE drive 'EVER'.

But I always low-level format a SCSI drive
when installing it, I have done this on several
occasions. I like update the bad block list.
Also if you are installing a drive that you
don't know what machine it was in before, in
my opinion it is best to low-level format.
You won't hert the drive by starting from
scratch.

Mel Ott

[melott]

I am NO athority on the subject, but no I don't
think the Bad Block List is updated every time
the drive is formatted. When I say I've done this
several times, I mean 5 or 6 times and that doesn't
make me an athority. I had a Quantum drive that
either came out of an Apple or IBM, it was reluctant
to take a low-level format and hi-level not at all.
Even then the drive didn't last long, a month or so
and it died, the whole head '0' crashed. I don't
think formatting had anything to do with it.
Anyway  a few months ago it seemed that I was
swapping drives around for ever.
As far as the bad block list, I always do a 'View Data'
and 'update bad block list' with HardDriveTools.
On my RocHard harddrive HarddriveTools won't
even look at it, it isn't conpliant with SCSI standards
in general so I format with harddrive tools, update
the bad block list then reinstall it in the Rochard and
low-level format with the RockHard software. I know
it seems the long way around but I am reasionably
sure of the drive now.

Mel Ott