A600 hard drive woes

[morcar]

I got all the workbench 2.05 disks and when i click on format it says that Work is not validated. What can i do to sort this out apart from using the workbench format cuz it`s taking forever.

I am running an Hitachi 6gb 2.5" hard drive

[amigakit]

The Work partition needs to be within the 4GB limit- otherwise it will not validate.  Reduce the partition size to make it smaller.

[DoogUK]

Amigakit are right, even if it does validate it will lose data as it writes over the 4gb limit...best bet with a 6 gb drive is to create 3 2gb partitions...it should be rock solid then.

[adolescent]

Don't use anything past 4GB unless IDEFix (or another patch) is installed.

One more thing, use quick format.  There's no reason to sit and wait.

[morcar]

when i select the format option i dont see the quick option it just goes to format so what command to i need to use in shell ?

[rkauer]

 Or buy a 3.1 ROM/Workbench to your 600.

 This way you can use HD up to 4Gb (without patches) or even up to 127Gb (with patches).

 If you don't want buy a new ROM, use up to 2Gb (ROM 2.0 limit) of your HD. No, SFS don't run on 68000 CPU. Only with 020 and up.

[rkauer]

when i select the format option i dont see the quick option it just goes to format so what command to i need to use in shell ?

 In a CLI ( =SHELL) type:

 format device name_of_device: name NAME_OF_YOUR_CHOICE FFS (optional) fast (optional) dircache (optional)