10GB IDE Hard Drive Partitioning in an Amiga 1200 and WB 3.1

[Antiriad]

I replaced the hard drive in my A1200 after the Original 209MB drive failed with a 2.5" 10GB IBM Travelstar. The Installation disk on WB 3.1 was able to pick up the drive info without any problems and the system automatically created the first partition to be 4096MB. I also created a second partition and the maximum size I could assign was also 4096MB. I formated the first partition to the full Size without any problems. I Installed WB, Opus and some other software but when I decided to format the second partition I realized that after the system completed 50% of the second drive format then the first partition started to develop Checksum errors. After rebooting it seems that all data in the first partition is corrupted.

In did this twice already and same problem comes up every time.

I know that the Operating system cannot see more than 4GB of Drive Space in a Partition but what happens with the second partition?

Do I need to use a different partitioning tool rather than the one that WB 3.1 has. Maybe use a different File System?

What happened to the rest 2GB of Storage?

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Note: The system has 3.1 Roms Installed

[doctorq]

With OS3.1 you can not use more than 4 GB unless you install a different filesystem like Professional Filesystem or Smart Filesystem.

What I have been told is, that if you install a drive larger than 4 GB and start to use the storage space above 4 GB, then when you access the space above the 4 GB area the starting 4 GB gets overwritten. For instance in you case, when you format the second 4 GB partition, you damage data on your first 4 GB partition.

My advice is to create a 150 MB partition for Workbench installation (Workbench 3.1 only requieres about 8 MB, and OS3.9 only requires about 25 MB so it should be more than enough), and use the rest up to the 4 GB for a partition for use with games and applications. A second solution would be to install SmartFileSystem.

[Jose]

Hi. This has been talked about so many times for so long 8-)

ReadTHIS

[Jose]

If you want to keep using Workbench 3.1 with the A1200's IDE port then probably the best solution is IDEFix (on Aminet)