HDToolbox question

[Kay]

After 2 days of formatting and copying, my new 120GB drive is finally up and running properly. My old drive suddenly decided to spend the rest of its days screaming (I think that's what it was doing), so it had to go (it was either the harddrive or my mind). Anyway, I've finally finished the torturous task of formatting and filling a 120GB drive through the A1200's lightning fast IDE interface, and I discovered a mistake. As with my previous large harddrive, HDToolbox failed to read it's specifications properly (cutting it to a laughable 18,8 GB), so I had to figure that out for myself. I see now that I made a mistake. The heads are now set to rest at sylinder 170000, while there is only some 156-157 thousand sylinders. I was wanting to change this, but HDToolbox warns me that editing these settings will erase the disk. Does anybody know if this is actually true? I don't want to risk finding out the hard way.

Any help would be appreciated.

Kay

[catohagen]

i have a 60gb drive i tried setup in hdtoolbox
but got some wierd numbers all over, so i googled
around for the drives product id/name and
found some linux site, where all the data where
presented, entered them in hdtoolbox, and that
was it....its been working flawless for some years now....

About the parking of the heads, newer harddisks have builtin functions to park the head in a safe place outside of the discs, but I have no idea of
values set in hdtoolbox overrides this...again
maybe you find some info about this if you
find the harddisk specs/info somewhere....

[Piru]

Park head cylinder is not used (at least not for IDE hds). You can ignore this setting.

Also, you can edit the setting without erasing any data. Hitting 'Install Drive' will warn you about destroying all data on the drive. However, when you click 'Ok', you will be presented by a requester to choose if you want to edit the settings instead of starting from scratch. If you choose 'Edit' here, and you only change settings that don't change the geometry settings, you should be safe.

Yes, should be. It works for me, ymmv.

PS. This is with OS 3.5 HDToolBox.

[Kay]

> Park head cylinder is not used (at least not for IDE hds). You can ignore this setting.

Ah, okay, thanks. I tried to search the net for the correct settings with my last drive, but with no luck. This time I didn't bother even trying. It will work for now, although I suspect I'm not getting it's full capacity. I'll get it sorted when OS4 comes out. :-)

Kay