gvpscsi.device & hd's >4Gb/OS3.9

[Argus]

I have a GVP/030 card which I spent the better part of yesterday trying to upgrade the harddrive on.  I had an old 2Gb IBM which was slow to spin up so it needed a warm reboot every time.  I decided to replace it with a more modern and slimmer 4.5 Gb Quantum Viking.  Both drives are SCSI1/2.  In any case, I can't for the life of me get the Viking to give me partitions > the 4Gb limit (this is with OS3.9).  Do I need a special Mountlist or something.  HDToolbox seems to partition the drive okay, but when I reboot I get no ghosted icon for the partition over 4Gb?? help anyone???

[Thomas]

Try to run the Format utility directly. It will give you a list of partitions which can be formatted. If it isn't in this list either, the GVP probably does not support big HDDs, neither through NSD nor through NSDPatch (SCSI-Direct or TD64) or the necessary entry is missing from Devs:NSDPatch.cfg. You should install the Boingbags in order to get all the latest drivers and NSDPatch entries.

Bye,
Thomas

[Argus]

Thomas wrote:

Try to run the Format utility directly. It will give you a list of partitions which can be formatted. If it isn't in this list either, the GVP probably does not support big HDDs, neither through NSD nor through NSDPatch (SCSI-Direct or TD64) or the necessary entry is missing from Devs:NSDPatch.cfg. You should install the Boingbags in order to get all the latest drivers and NSDPatch entries.

Thanks, I haven't tried the Boingbags yet.  I did manage to finally get two 2Gb partitions, but I still can't squeeze out the extra 500Mb.  I think the gvpscsi.device is not quite right, though I'm using the latest version of it. Wierd.