FIXHDDSIZE not working properly?

[Everblue]

I have installed a 40gig Toshiba HDD in my A1200 and run Workbench 3.1 HDinstaller, which, as expected only sees it as an 8 gig HDD. To fix this I have downloaded FIXHDDSIZE and when I run it, it says that my HDD is indeed 8gig, and that it is already set correctly - which is not the case.

Anyone can help me out with this strange problem? I am running kickstart 3.0.

Thanks!


E'Blue

[Zac67]

Possibly the HDD was clipped via jumper or ATA command?

[davideo]

Everblue wrote:
I have installed a 40gig Toshiba HDD in my A1200 and run Workbench 3.1 HDinstaller, which, as expected only sees it as an 8 gig HDD. To fix this I have downloaded FIXHDDSIZE and when I run it, it says that my HDD is indeed 8gig, and that it is already set correctly - which is not the case.

Anyone can help me out with this strange problem? I am running kickstart 3.0.

Thanks!

E'Blue

Have you updated your file system to the latest verison?

I believe you need to - to see more than 8GB  :idea:

Dave G  8-)

[pyrre]

what about setpatch?

[AmigaMance]

I have a 40GB western digital and i did had to run any special tools to make the system recognize it as a 40GB HD.
 What version of scsi.device are you using? I hope not the OS3.1 one. I'm using the IDEFix package from Aminet. Try it.
 By HDInstaller you mean HDToolBox? Try HDInstTools. Perhaps it's better.

Edit: Right.. I forgot to say that i had to set the size of each partition by increasing the cylinders value, not by using the size slider as it was reseting to 0 beyond the 8GB.

[Thomas]

@Everblue:

scsi.device V40 and below cannot see more than 8 GB. You need scsi.device V43 or higher to use 40 GB.

You need one of
scsi.device V43 beta
IDEfix97
OS 3.5
OS 3.9

While the first two run with Kick 3.0, for the latter two you need Kick 3.1.

Bye,
Thomas

[Everblue]

Thanks a lot everyone for your replies.

I have downloaded scsi.device from that link, but the zipped file contains files such as:

a300.ld.strip
a600.ld.strip
etc.

Is this normal? I thought that it would be just a file called scsi.device which I would then put in the DEVS directory. Sorry for my n00bness?

Thanks


E'blue

[zipper]

What about reading the readme file?

[Everblue]

Sorry - I thought it was a matter of placing a file in some folder

[Thomas]

Note that the LoadV43Module program which comes with the strip files does insist on Kick 3.1. To use the files with Kick 3.0 you can use BlizKick (if you have a suuported accelerator) or Thor's LoadModule.

And you might want to apply the PatchStrip to the strip files, otherwise you'll get annoying guru messages about expired beta periods on every boot.

Also note that you need SFS or a similar advanced file system for your partitions.

Bye,
Thomas