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Offline utri007

Re: Large disk problem
« on: August 12, 2016, 10:00:08 AM »
Quote from: Sparky;812458
Yes .. Vampire2.


Isn't so that you Vampire uses custom Kickstart? Wich is copied to fastram during a boot?

Why you don't use this? http://aminet.net/package/driver/media/SCSI4345p

I have it in my self made physical kickstart and I haven't had any problems with any hard disk anymore. My boot partition is 30gb and hard disk has total 400gb space.
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD
 

Offline utri007

Re: Large disk problem
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2016, 11:24:10 AM »
Using updated scsi.device with setpatch has a problems. Original scsi.device needs to see big disk and it needs to be able read it configuration. So that updated scsi.device can be loaded.

If you can use updated scsi.device from kickstart without need of setpatch prety much every hard disk works. My current 400gb hard disk didn't work at all without scsi.device 43.45 by Hodes, Wilen and Sauer.
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD
 

Offline utri007

Re: Large disk problem
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2016, 11:34:12 AM »
Quote from: Sparky;812468
Can you upload that attachment again ?  It's a bit microscopic! :-)


It seems that is amiga.org problem

Here is a link

http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=783309&postcount=1
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD
 

Offline utri007

Re: Large disk problem
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2016, 07:32:24 PM »
Quote from: cmsj;812475
The vampire does use a custom Kickstart, but it is not copied to fastram.

The custom KS should have scsi.device 43.46 in it, I believe.


I know at least one 43.46 wich no a good. Is it for internal IDE? I prety sure that 43.45 is best one.
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD