15 or 20 gig in A4000 both "Seek failure"

[A1200Power]

Hi Guys,

I'am out of ideas at the moment how to get both my drives to work in the A4000.

My basic Western Digital WDC850 drive works fine in the machine also with os3.9. But soon i ran out of space so got a 15G seagate and a 20G Western Digital.

I already use the idefix prog because it is used to acces the cd-rom. Connecting the drives ain't no problem eigther. The sh*t comes when i try to format the drives, they have been partitioned wel and the toolbox reports the drives correctly by size.

Also tried the SFS (smart file system) but that does not work because i get some kind of checksum error that the drive is not taking the fullformat and quickformat for granted.

Maybe you got some ideas??

Much appreciated Henk. :roll:

[doctorq]

With OS3.9 and FastFileSystem; have you installed BoingBag 1 and 2? A quick format is more than enough here anyway.

With SFS, there is some tools in the package, where one of them is SFSformat. Use it to format the partitions with SFS installed.

[A1200Power]

Hey Thanx for the quick reply,


But what is Boingbag cause i never heard of it, is it some sort of driver for the amiga scsi.device?

If have tried anysthing so far but if boingbag should work iam willing to go for it

Bye

[doctorq]

Boingbags are updates for OS3.9. If I were you I would go for it, since there are some updated files which concerns the scsi.device and the file system.

You can find the boingbags at http://os.amigaworld.de I think.

[Thomas]

For proper support of big HDDs you should use the very latest version of IDEfix. See IDEfix97 on Aminet.

Also you should not mix OS3.9's new scsi.device and IDEfix' one. So either run IDEfix and change SetPatch to SetPatch SKIPROMUPDATE "scsi.device" or don't run IDEfix and run SetPatch without any additional parameters.

Finally you should make IDEfix reset resident. Run C:LoadIDE instead of C:IDEfix and make sure that SetPatch resets at its first call.

Bye,
Thomas

[doctorj]

I had a similar problem when installing OS3.9 and new hard drives.  I thought I had a bad hard drive!  As it turned out, HDToolBox seems to default to FFS INTL and a sector size of 1024 bytes.  I changed this to 512 bytes and everything worked flawlessly.