Two problems!

I got two things I would love to get help with.

1. I got two HDs connected to my Amiga and the second one cant be formatted. When I do it and it tries to finish it, it says that it is a non-dos disk.
I use WB2. The bad thing is that I cant see the disk on the desktop so I dont know how to format it.
Are there anything I can write in CLI to format the HD? It is the second one fyi.

2. What program should you use in order to unpack *.adz files from the Amiga to a disk?

Best Wishes
Marcus Nordlund

[seer]

1. I got two HDs connected to my Amiga and the second one cant be formatted. When I do it and it tries to finish it, it says that it is a non-dos disk.

How big is the drive/partition ?If it is bigger then 4Gb then WB2 can't use that by default.. Either make the partition smaller or upgrade to the newer file system.. Have to look up on how to do that for ya.. Must be around on this site somewhere..

2. What program should you use in order to unpack *.adz files from the Amiga to a disk?


I remember somebody mentioned a Amiga Program that could do that.. Not sure tho... Otherwise, just unzip them and use ADF2Disk... Search on amitnet for those..

Thanks for the fast reply.

It is a 10mb HD.

I already got adf2disk for use with adf files, I write like this to unpack em:

adf2disk RAM:test.adf

If I wanna unpack a *.adz show I just exchange the file extension for the apropriate file?


Best Wishes
Marcus Nordlund

[seer]

Thanks for the fast reply.

Your welcome.

It is a 10mb HD.

Ah.. An oldy then... Could be that some sectors are damaged.. Can you see it correctly in HD-Toolbox ? There should be an option to check for and mark "bad blocks"... Using WinUAE, with a directorie as a harddisk, so HD-Toolbox is useless for me, and don't have WB2 here..

If I wanna unpack a *.adz show I just exchange the file extension for the apropriate file?

No, I don't think so... adz is an adf image but zipped.. AFAIK, adf2disk can't uncrompress it..

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There is an amiga version of unzip on aminet, several even...
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[Thomas]

If I wanna unpack a *.adz show I just exchange the file extension for the apropriate file?

Rename it to .adf.gz, then use GZIP to uncompress it and then use ADF2DISK. Or use TSGUI to do all in one go (you still need the GZIP program).

Bye,
Thomas

[Desmon]

@Marcus75

I got two things I would love to get help with.

1. I got two HDs connected to my Amiga and the second one cant be formatted. When I do it and it tries to finish it, it says that it is a non-dos disk.
I use WB2. The bad thing is that I cant see the disk on the desktop so I dont know how to format it.
Are there anything I can write in CLI to format the HD? It is the second one fyi.

Yup. Open a shell window and type "format drive name ffs noicons"
without the quotes and replacing with the name you gave it in HDToolBox and by the volume name YOU wish to give it.

2. What program should you use in order to unpack *.adz files from the Amiga to a disk?

Yup. It's a GZip'd ADF file. Grab UnZip from Aminet and unzip it. The you favourite ADF writer will allow you to write it to a floppy. (or FMS disk if you use 'em)

Thanks again for the replys.

However...for some strange reason I cant see any of my HDs in HD Toolbox despite the fact that I am actually booting on one of them.

Any ideas, tips or otherwise?

Best Wishes
Marcus Nordlund.

It's been a long time for me, but I believe you have to go into hdtools and set up a new drive.

It should automatically detect all the sectors and such.

After that, you save the change and then you should be able to see them.

It might require a reboot.

That's the best I can remember.

[Varthall]

2. What program should you use in order to unpack *.adz files from the Amiga to a disk?

Yup. It's a GZip'd ADF file. Grab UnZip from Aminet and unzip it. The you favourite ADF writer will allow you to write it to a floppy. (or FMS disk if you use 'em)

TransADF (aminet, disk/misc) can uncompress and transfer adz files directly to disk. Give it a try!

Varthall

When I type...

FORMAT DRIVE DH1:  NAME TEST

...in CLI it just says "Not a dos-disk in drive DH1" and when I type INFO the same relpy comes up.

Im getting desperate now... :-(

[vortexau]

@Marcus75:
You did say that it was 10Mb?
Amigas never (to my knowledge) came with drives smaller than 20Mb.
Smaller drives may not be SCSI or IDE. There were other types about pre-'89 such as ST-506. What controller are you using?

If you are using SCSI, then the correct 'name'scsi.device must be used with HDToolBox.

NOT all drives need FORMATTING, but all need a suitable Filing System, eg .. FFS.

Usually the ICON (which may be labelled- 'Not a Dos Disk') can be selected and the FORMAT started from Format Disk in the Icon Menu.

[Trooper]

Hi,

Marcus75 wrote:
I got two things I would love to get help with.

1. I got two HDs connected to my Amiga and the second one cant be formatted. When I do it and it tries to finish it, it says that it is a non-dos disk.
I use WB2. The bad thing is that I cant see the disk on the desktop so I dont know how to format it.
Are there anything I can write in CLI to format the HD? It is the second one fyi.

2. What program should you use in order to unpack *.adz files from the Amiga to a disk?

Best Wishes
Marcus Nordlund

Are your hard drives 3.5", If the are, have you set them up as master/slave via the jumpers on the drives?.

Also some makes of drive do not work together on the same ide cable. :-?

Hope this helps.

Trooper

[Glaucus]

However...for some strange reason I cant see any of my HDs in HD Toolbox despite the fact that I am actually booting on one of them.

That's not right.  Make sure the device (or scsi_device as it is on my 3.9 system) tooltype for HDToolBox is set to scsi.device.

Someone else already mentioned this but do make sure that one of your HDs is a master and the other is a slave.  I kinda doubt this is the problem as your system probably wouldn't boot if they were both masters, but ya never know.

Of course it could also be a cable problem.  Btw, does the drive powerup?  Do you hear it spin up when you turn on the Amiga?

  - Mike

I have more info so you guys maybe can help me.

The HD is a 60mb one and it worked earlier together with the "boot"-hd. I think there became some errors on the HD and after that I tried to format it in WB 1.3.

When I type info it dosnt say that it is mounted. It seems as if I need to do some sort of repair using a third-party program. I dont hear the HD power up because of the fuzz the working on makes. I am fairly sure it does start up since it worked before and I havnt altered any jumpers, cables or other hardware stuff.

I hope someone could manage to find a solution. I also post on several forums but so far Ive had the most luck here.

Best Wishes
Marcus Nordlund

[Trooper]

Hi Marcus,

Marcus75 wrote:
I have more info so you guys maybe can help me.

The HD is a 60mb one and it worked earlier together with the "boot"-hd. I think there became some errors on the HD and after that I tried to format it in WB 1.3.

When I type info it dosnt say that it is mounted. It seems as if I need to do some sort of repair using a third-party program. I dont hear the HD power up because of the fuzz the working on makes. I am fairly sure it does start up since it worked before and I havnt altered any jumpers, cables or other hardware stuff.

I hope someone could manage to find a solution. I also post on several forums but so far Ive had the most luck here.

Best Wishes
Marcus Nordlund

Which drive is it that is giving you the problem, The 10mb or the 60mb?

Just my opinion, But if it`s the 10mb hard drive, Is it really worth all that trouble in trying to get it working.

It is possible to get hard drives much larger that for only a few pounds.

For instance, I checked on ebay and found this Hard drive, Maybe more than you want to spend, If you want to spend anything at all, But it`s just an idea.

Also if you are interested, I have 2 2.5" hard drives that are of no use to me anymore, One 60mb Seagate (working) and one 120mb Quantum (not working).

Regards

Trooper