Buddha. How To???!??

[Iggy_Drougge]

Marcb wrote:
4gb 'DSE' Compact Flash cards, DSE is a chain of Australian electronics retail stores... I assume they buy them from an o/s supplier and rebadge them, but how to find out the original brand???

Perhaps it says in HDtoolbox.

[Iggy_Drougge]

mchaggis wrote:
Well I've just gone out and bought a 160GB PATA HDD; dropped it in and connected up first time. And given the MASSIVE price difference between CF and an IDE drive, based upon storage, I reckon I've made the right decision.

Funny, I'm usually looking for as small cards as possible for my "spare" Amigas. I don't need more than a hundred megabytes on my A600, and filling a 160 GB drive on any 68k Amiga is going to be a challenge.

[Marcb]

Iggy_Drougge wrote:
Perhaps it says in HDtoolbox.

Just checked, it just read the manufacturer name as 'Generic' :-(

[mchaggis]

Iggy_Drougge wrote:

Funny, I'm usually looking for as small cards as possible for my "spare" Amigas. I don't need more than a hundred megabytes on my A600, and filling a 160 GB drive on any 68k Amiga is going to be a challenge.

Well the plan is that it doesn't stay a base model 68k Amiga...  :-)

I partitioned the HD up to as close to 4GB as I could, but right at the very end of a long format operation. It stopped and said the HDD was not a DOS Disk; and now the drive is stuck "validating". Which is annoying.

Any suggestions on 'validating' the hdd? I dont want to repartition and format it again; that took AGES!

[Iggy_Drougge]

mchaggis wrote:
I partitioned the HD up to as close to 4GB as I could, but right at the very end of a long format operation. It stopped and said the HDD was not a DOS Disk; and now the drive is stuck "validating". Which is annoying.

Any suggestions on 'validating' the hdd? I dont want to repartition and format it again; that took AGES!

Ages? Partitioning a hard drive shouldn't take more than ten minutes.
As for partitioning, I'd suggest you make several partitions under the 4 GB limit, so you can have several boot partitions (if not for different OSes then simply for having a bootable backup).

[mchaggis]

Oh, the partition was instant. The format was several hours.

I'll take your advice and go a 1GB parition for booting; and slice the rest up for storage of apps and games.

What's giving me trouble is getting WB3.1 installed on the HDD; then installing the Buddha drives for the CD ROM; which will then let me get WB3.5 installed.

First hurdle is the dodgy partition.

[doctorq]

As OS3.1 only takes up around 6 MB of storage space, and OS3.5 around 25-30 MB, I suggest that you make your boot partition only around 200-250 MB. It will still give you plenty of additional storage on the boot drive.

As for the format taking a long time; use quick format instead. There is no need to do a normal format on your harddrive.

[Methuselas]

doctorq wrote:


As for the format taking a long time; use quick format instead. There is no need to do a normal format on your harddrive.

I was about to mention this, but Q beat me to it. Frakking ninjas!  :lol:

[mchaggis]

OK now I'm mad as hell; after all manner of grief, including the corruption of the CF card that runs my A1200; I've got the HDD formatted and installed WB3.1.

Oh and for giggles my WB3.1 Install disk died...not fun.

So anyways , several hours later i get around to installing the Buddha software and it helpfully, NOT!!!!!, checks the size of my HDD before installing. And predictably uses a 4bit datatype to hold the int size of the HDD. So it then says you have -9999999999999 gazillion bytes left on your HDD, and I couldnt possibly install in that space.. XXX#$#$#####!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Feel the anger!!!!!!!

So what do i do now?!? The alcohol hasnt helped.

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For some reason I feel compelled to install the Buddha software, help me Amigan's!

[Methuselas]

Okay. From what I remember from my MK2 (and we're talking 12+ years), you *HAD* to use the buddha HD tools to install a drive bigger than 4GB. This was before OS 3.5 was out, so it's probably something to do with the <4GB barrier of OS3.1. I know that the Buddha, itself, handles the barrier problem.  

I seem to remember that I had to install the buddha install disk, first, which wasn't a problem as I was using the SCSI off my A3000, initially. You may have to use a "boot drive" to install and format the drive. Format it, plain jane. Don't give your boot partition a boot priority, until you know you can format the entire drive, successfully.

Also, check the Individual Computers website and shoot a message to Jens. He's a great guy and wonderful to talk to. He'll do anything he can, to get his products working for you. They may have updated software for the Buddha.

I wish I could help more, but I haven't had or used a Buddha in years. I will tell you, though, that it's a great piece of tech.

Sorry you're having so many problems..... :-(

[mchaggis]

We’re all up and running, OS3.1 on the new HDD plus a functional CDROM. The trick was the small DH0, which I set at 400MB; and a 2GB data partition.

Dont quite know what I’ll do with the remaining 157GB :-D

I guess I’ll find a use with the 68040 accelerator that I won on eBay today.

Thanks for all your help. I'm sure I'll need more when the accelerator arrives  :-)