Amix: hard drive too big?

[jnordness]

Fun. I just found out that the 240mb hard drive has a couple of bad sectors. That MIGHT be why I am having problems. I've been trying to do it using the single hard drive method again, but it is still reporting funky partition sizes, even though the size of all of the partitions is less than 1gb. Are the bad sectors stored somewhere in the MBR so unix doesn't try to overwrite them?

[Failure]

I'm not sure how you're going to get around the partition size issues without a smaller drive.  With a PC MBR, you can maybe fake it out by creating four primary partitions beneath the (apparent) 4GB limit.  This renders the rest of the drive unusable.  I'm not sure something like that is possible with the Amiga.

For the bad sectors, I'm not too well versed on hard drive archaeology but modern drives, at least, remap bad sectors transparent to the OS.  So if you're seeing bad sectors it's probably pretty whacked :-)  Some filesystems (Linux ext2/ext3 for example) have support for mapping around bad sectors.  I'm about positive the AMIX filesystems do NOT have such support.

If this works for you with a smaller drive that's good to know, since I don't think we have drive size limitations documented anywhere...

[jnordness]

Well, since the 240mb is not good, I think I'm done messing around for now. Towards the end there, even HDtoolbox was being weird when it was paritioning the 4.3gb drive. I just think Amix doesn't like the bigguns.