A4000 won't mount HD

[wildstar1063]

I am having a bit of and issue setting up an A4000 HD. I have hard drive that I can
format and mount just fine if it is the primary IDE device, but if I switch it to
slave drive HDToolbox and mounter can see it, but refuse to mount it.

I have a full new install of AmigaOS 3.9 updated to Boing bag 3, on a 6 gig Memtech
Wolverine drive, I currently have only about 3 gig of  that drive partitioned, and it mounts
and works fine, and my CD ROM drive  also mounts and works fine (Memtech Master, CD ROM Slave) with it.

I want to back the drive up to another Memtech 1.5 gig drive, so I can switch it from FFS
to PFS. I Unhooked the CD and connected it's IDE connector and power to the Memtech 1.5
drive and removed the CD0 Mount thing from Devs/Dosdevices, and re-booted. I installed
and partitioned the drive with HDtoolbox and re-booted, but never got it to show me the
unformatted icons on the desktop, so I could format the partitions. I know it's not the drive
because I tried the same with a WD Caviar 2 gig and had the same issue. both are set correctly as slave.

However when I hook the CD ROM back up as slave and set the Memtech 1.5 as master
and boot from my AmigaOS3.9 emergency disk with the OS3.9 CD in, I can install and
partition the drive and on re-boot I get the unformatted icons and can format the partitions
just fine. but when I unhook the CD ROM and hook the 1.5 up as slave and the 6 gig up as
master, the 1.5gig wont mount again, even though it was installed, partitioned and
formatted under the emergency disk and mounted just fine.

scsi.device is the 44.2 from BB 3

anyone have any Ideas?

Thanks

Chuck E.

[Thomas]

When you connect a new drive as slave, the master drive will appear as "changed" in HDToolbox. Select the master and save the changes, then the slave's partitions will appear.

When you disconnect the slave HDD, you should do the same again. If you don't, the driver will try to find partitions on the CD drive. This slows down the boot process a lot.

[wildstar1063]

That could be it, several times HDtoolbox has said the original device was changed,
but since I knew I did not change it, I just ignored it.

I will save it, when it asks an see what happens. I will report back later

Thanks

Chuck E.

[giZmo350]

As I have read so many of Thomas' threads in the past (and have helped many times after a search), I am relegated to conclude that Thomas is the smartest all around Miggy guy on the planet!

[wildstar1063]

That was it!

I got the message that the original had changed, and chose "Update"
and re-booted again, and there were the unformatted drive icons.

I don't remember this happening with the SCSI drives from My A3000 and A3000T
is this just an IDE thing?

Thanks for the assist Thomas

Chuck E.

[Thomas]

I don't remember this happening with the SCSI drives from My A3000 and A3000T

HDToolbox always sets the "last drive" flag on the drive with the highest unit number.

If it works or not depends firstly on whether the driver recognises and respects the flags and secondly on the order in which you add harddrives.

If for some reason on SCSI you started with a high unit number and added drives with lower numbers, then the oldest drive always stayed the "last" and you never had to change something.

The flag is made to speed up boot processing. If you keep partitioned drives with low unit numbers and non-partitioned drives with high numbers, then drives without partitions (CD drives, tape drives, scanners etc.) are not checked for partitions at boot time.

[gertsy]

As I have read so many of Thomas' threads in the past (and have helped many times after a search), I am relegated to conclude that Thomas is the smartest all around Miggy guy on the planet!

When I have problems I do an Aorg search for the subject + Thomas. .