A600 HD too slow?

[Prosatanos]

Hi!
 
I have decieded, to swap the HDD-s in my A600/A1200. Previously all two worked fine. Now, A1200 ok, A600 don't boot. Booting from floppy, no HDD icons in WB. HDToolbox sees the hdd, can be partitioned, after exit from HDToolbox, the icons showed in WB, can use, formatting, etc. After restart, no boot, no icons.
 
After the switching on, immediately before the insert floppy screen, i hear the hdd's reset sound, it is fast sure, that the hdd have not enough time to reset.
 
What can i do, except changing back?

[Flashlab]

Hi!
 
I have decieded, to swap the HDD-s in my A600/A1200. Previously all two worked fine. Now, A1200 ok, A600 don't boot. Booting from floppy, no HDD icons in WB. HDToolbox sees the hdd, can be partitioned, after exit from HDToolbox, the icons showed in WB, can use, formatting, etc. After restart, no boot, no icons.
 
After the switching on, immediately before the insert floppy screen, i hear the hdd's reset sound, it is fast sure, that the hdd have not enough time to reset.
 
What can i do, except changing back?

I think I read here on A.org about different kickstart revisions that can limit HD use on A600s. Some older versions don't allow drives over a certain size, I believe. I hope someone with more knowledge can help you further! In the meantime you can post your kickstart revision and HD size.

[Prosatanos]

I think I read here on A.org about different kickstart revisions that can limit HD use on A600s. Some older versions don't allow drives over a certain size, I believe. I hope someone with more knowledge can help you further! In the meantime you can post your kickstart revision and HD size.

HDD 324 MB
Kick 2.05 v37.300

[Flashlab]

"Due to bugs in Kickstart 37.300, the maximum supported size of a hard drive was limited to 40 MB. Everything above this size was a game of chance. In contrast, version 37.350 was capable of supporting hard drives up to 4 GB."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_600

Guess you need a newer kickstart...

[Prosatanos]

"Due to bugs in Kickstart 37.300, the maximum supported size of a hard drive was limited to 40 MB. Everything above this size was a game of chance. In contrast, version 37.350 was capable of supporting hard drives up to 4 GB."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_600

Guess you need a newer kickstart...

Hm... Seems, i'm lucky, the 1GB hdd worked fine...  I need change the flash ic, or it is possible to flash, like pc bios?
 
Thank You

[TjLaZer]

Hm... Seems, i'm lucky, the 1GB hdd worked fine...  I need change the flash ic, or it is possible to flash, like pc bios?

Um no, you need to remove the old Kickstart chip and insert another one, you are dealing with Old Skool here man.  

[mike-]

I have a weird example for you, i had a 60 gig samsung drive in my a600 to begin with, that worked fine, detected fine etc. i later swapped over to the 1200, worked fine there, then another old laptop landed in my lap, took the hard drive, a 60 gig toshiba disk, partitioned it with the 1200, then proceeded to stuff it in the 600, only to have it not show up... at all. Kick 3.1 this tho. However, for some reason a smaller 1 gig i believe, seemed to be faster in the 600 then the 60 gig, i say seemed because it could have been my imagination.

[TjLaZer]

I think what might be happening is the drive was prepped with 32 bit address masking on the 1200 so maybe that's why it doesn't work on the 600?  I had a similar issue with an A2000 where the drive was visable in 040 but not in 6000 mode...