Disk is not validated????

[circlip]

Hi guys,

trying to get my Amiga 600 HDD ready for installing games.

I have partitioned and formatted using HDInstTools, and that was fine.

Although, whenever I try to copy something to a partition (I have two partitions) it will say "Disk is not validated".

I have tried diff tools, utilities, etc, all with the same result. Anything here I am missing?


Thanks,

Circlip.

[rkauer]

 Could be missing:

 - Did you format the second partition?

 - What file system did you use on it? SFS is not good for unexpanded (without accelerator) Amigas.

 - What ROM version you have? 37300 is no good at all for big partitions! What is the size of the HD/CF? Bigger than 2Gb will put you into trouble if you don't have a 3.1 ROM in your A600 (compatibility for up to 4Gb without patches).

[weirdami]

You might just have to wait a bit while they are validated.

[circlip]

Ok,

I have 2 2Gb partitions on a 6Gb drive, (left the rest free, as suggested bya few people.) I have replaced the ROM chip with a rev 37.350, to allow for 4Gb drive.

I realised that a "quick" format using HDInstTools MAY be the problem, so I am doing a full format for Partition 1, and I will do the same for Partition 2 when it is done. (Gee, it takes a while!!) I am doing the formatting through Workbench 2.1.

Will let you guys know of the result.


EDIT: I think I used "FFS International" as the filesystem.

EDIT EDIT: The formatting finished it said "Not a valid DOS disk". What is wrong? (I initiated the Format command from Workbench 2.1 menu.)

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Ok, it's kinda working. I made a 50Mb partition for Workbench, a 1.9 something Gb partition, and a 2Gb partition.

So I now have three partitions. Is this ok?? I have workbench on the very first partition, and it managed to boot from it. I clicked on "info" for the other two, and it says "validating" so I suppose it is the waiting game.

3 partitions ok?? 1: 50Mb, 2: 1.95Gb, 3: 2.0Gb.

Thanks everyone.

Circlip.