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Offline rvo_nl

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Re: Setting up an 80Gb hard drive on OS3.9
« Reply #14 from previous page: March 10, 2010, 12:35:15 PM »
yes, although Im pretty sure its 4gb. I do recommend starting with a 100mb wb3.1 partition used just for solving problems. its always  a good idea to have a partition that doesnt require rom updates or idefix patches to start.
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Re: Setting up an 80Gb hard drive on OS3.9
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2010, 01:05:56 PM »
Quote from: Tumbleweed;546980
Your sort of stuck in chicken and egg situation. What to do is construct a custom boot floppy, which includes idefix. You can boot the A1200 using it and then run HDToolBox to configure the HDD. When configuring the HDD create a small no more than 4GB boot partition and isntall workbench on it. For my set up I have my 80GB drive configured with a 2GB boot partition (DH0) and a 2GB cache partition (DH1) and the rest is (DH3).

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I made it, I copied the idefix program in workbench:c and added it to the startup-sequence before setpatch;
workbench starts up, idefix window opens, then I confirm with the yes option;
if I try to start the original hdtoolbox or hdinsttools, they start checking the attached scsi devices and then guru meditation!!
Some ideas??? :(
It's a 1200 with DKB Cobra 68030 with 16 MB edo ram, hd 20 GB...

It's ok now, I put idefix AFTER setpatch, and now everything works :)

It's not really easy, people... Too many years passed ;)
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Re: Setting up an 80Gb hard drive on OS3.9
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2010, 05:55:18 PM »
hmm. you should use hdtoolbox from os3.9, you know. dont forget partition sizes and the rom update reboot. but glad to hear it seems to be working :)
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Re: Setting up an 80Gb hard drive on OS3.9
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2010, 06:53:08 PM »
Glad to hear you sorted it.

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Re: Setting up an 80Gb hard drive on OS3.9
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2010, 08:28:41 PM »
The drive now shows the 80Gb and 0S3.9 let me partition with PFS3 using the full 80Gb. I made a boot partition about 800Mb and split the rest up as three partitions, however after a quick format of them all and a reboot only the boot partition and the first partition (HD0 and HD1) appear as initialized. The other two (HD2 and HD3) are uninitialized and after a quick format they appear initialized again but after further reboots they go back to uninitialized. I then changed HD2 and HD3 to FastFileSystem and they had no problem staying initialized.

What gives?
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