Setting up the Cyberstorm Ultrawide and a 147Gig HD

[Corrie]

Hi all, well my 147 Gig Seagate U320 drive arrived. I have a 9gig IBM Ultra SCSI HD on the Amiga at the moment. I plugged in the 147gig drive and went into HDTools. It found the drive no probs, then had it broken into lots of 8gig partitions. I got rid of them and made one big partition of 140gig (or whatever it worked out to be exactly).

I then selected the PFS driver under PFS HDTools and then upon exiting it reboots. I expected to get a NDOS icon on my WB, but instead nothing. The drive has simply dissappeared. I have used HDTools on 3.9 - Nothing! I have used PFS HDTools and hit Scan and only my 9gig HD comes up.

My setup is A4000T, Cyberstorm MKIII, 128Mb Ram, OS3.9 , running a 9Gig IBM UltraSCSI HD and the vanished Seagate 147Gig U320 HD.

I was wondering if it had something to do with the large partition, but still I would have thought I could atleast see the HD in the HDTools....

Is there anyway to revert to the factory settings!?!

If anyone has any ideas, I would be much appreciated. I am at a complete loss after changing HD positions all day now, swapping terminators, swapping cables etc. I cannot get the drive to even come up anymore.

Please help if you can, open to suggestions

 

[Framiga]

@Corrie

Have you checked the option in HDToolbox for UWSCSI?

Then try to use PFS3ds 18.5 the last update. (PFS DirectScsi).

Ciao

[Corrie]

Framiga wrote:
@Corrie

Have you checked the option in HDToolbox for UWSCSI?

Then try to use PFS3ds 18.5 the last update. (PFS DirectScsi).

Ciao

Yes I have clicked the Wide on the start of HDToolbox. Still nothing comes up. Ahh just thought of a question. Qould I have to have the SCSI ID set somewhere between 8-14 for it to recognise the Ultrawide? I have never used anything more then more Ultra HD on it....

?

[edderkop]

have you checket the SCSI ID on the drives is not the same. :-?

[Corrie]

edderkop wrote:
have you checket the SCSI ID on the drives is not the same. :-?

Yeah I even changed the 9gig ID to make sure....

[Framiga]

@Corrie

use only the last HDToolbox from BB-2. (45.6).

Ciao

EDIT- by the way, i'm not 100% sure that your U320 could be compatible, with the CStorm controller.

[edderkop]

 try another prep program perhaps? like hdinst from aminet Link
 :-?

[TmtisFree]

Hi,

Maximum size of a PFS3 partition is 104 GB.
And Ultra320 drives work perfectly on UW (advantage of SCSI).

Bye.

[darksun9210]

ok, i had this when trying to sort out 18Gb drives under 3.5

in the config file for the 3.5/9 rom patch, you have to put in (or edit) an entry to allow large devices on the cyberstorm bus, otherwise you could see the drive initially, but then once you'd put an RDB on it, it wouldn't show. i might be barking up entirely the wrong tree. but it might be of some help. :-D

[Corrie]

darksun9210 wrote:
ok, i had this when trying to sort out 18Gb drives under 3.5

in the config file for the 3.5/9 rom patch, you have to put in (or edit) an entry to allow large devices on the cyberstorm bus, otherwise you could see the drive initially, but then once you'd put an RDB on it, it wouldn't show. i might be barking up entirely the wrong tree. but it might be of some help. :-D

Thats exactly what has happened mate. It recognized at first no probs, then once I partitioned it other then all the 8gig partitions, it just simply disappeared.

Can you tell me how to do the entry and where to find the config file your talking about please?

Can anyone help here?

[Thematic]

First off, I'm not familiar with these large partitions, having a 9 GB
drive myself. But the config file in question is most likely
devs:nsdpatch.cfg . I had a look in there, too. Seems the very last
lines might have something to do with it, or not. :-?

[darksun9210]

i'm trying to remember now as my miggy has long since gone to a better home (imperial war museum running interactive FMV displays).

but as i remember it, this the NSDpatch file in the devs directory. the one that gets loaded with the ROM update for 3.5/9. have a scan through the file in a text editor, and in there you should find some hashed out lines for setting up large partitions on ther cybscsi deivce for the old mark1/2 cyberstorms.

just unhash the lines and change the cyberscsi.device for cybppc.device.

 and if you can, when it comes to setting the type of file system to use with the drive, i found that the 3.5 version of HDtool boxdidn't like to write out the partition information correctly if it was anything other than an FFS drive. so i used the 3.1 version of HDtoolbox. this was much more reliable for setting up filesystems for anything other than FFS - PPC linux partitions included. make sure you load the PFS filesystem onto the drive and for clean drifves sake, remove the FFS filesystem auto loaded in there. now make sure you set the drive mask number if its not set correctly when you save the filesystem information to the drive, otherwise the drive will default to "custom filesystem" and not be available, as your miggy doesn't know how to read it.
then use the 3.5/9 version of hdtoolbox to setup the partitions. and bada bing, its there! took me ages to figure out but IT IS POSSIBLE! mooo!!!

anyway i cant remember this exactly. can anyone loan me a 2.5" to 3.5" drive adapter? i've just bought an 1200 and my backup 3.5" IDE drive is the only miggy drive i have left, and it has all my old system on it. so would be handy to sound like i know what i'm talking about  :-D