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How do i add second hardrdive?
« on: April 02, 2010, 07:45:34 PM »
Hi all i have a towered amiga 1200 with os 3.9 installed and it has an ide controller with 2 ide ports on it i have my cd-rom slaved my harddrive is mastered on ide port 0 and i have now installed another harddrive (15 gig) on the ide port 1 but when i boot into workbench i dont see the hard drive. i have used idefix's find device but it does not see it what am i doing wrong?
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Re: How do i add second hardrdive?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2010, 07:51:49 PM »
have you formatted it? dont know if that'll make a difference.

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Re: How do i add second hardrdive?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2010, 07:54:21 PM »
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have you formatted it? dont know if that'll make a difference.

Justin


it does not even show up in workbench thats the problem if it showed up i could then format it.
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Re: How do i add second hardrdive?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2010, 08:01:25 PM »
The system doesn't know anything about the HDD until you create RDB and some partition(s) on it via HDToolBox (or some alternative).
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Re: How do i add second hardrdive?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2010, 08:06:21 PM »
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The system doesn't know anything about the HDD until you create RDB and some partition(s) on it via HDToolBox (or some alternative).


what is a good alternative to hdtoolbox?
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Re: How do i add second hardrdive?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2010, 08:22:13 PM »
There souldn't be any need to look for alternatives. Are you sure your Hard Drive is readable for Amiga? I find some IDE's don't work at all but are fine in PeeCee's.
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Re: How do i add second hardrdive?
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2010, 08:27:58 PM »
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what is a good alternative to hdtoolbox?


What's wrong with HDToolBox? It should do it.

Anyway.. if drive doesn't show up in HDToolBox, have you ran idefix on startup-sequence? Only port 0 works without software on idefix. Or did OS3.9 handle it automatically? Hmm..
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Re: How do i add second hardrdive?
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2010, 08:43:41 PM »
You sure you have master and slave setup correctly on the jumpers for the drives?  I don't think Cable select jumpers on the newer drives works on the Amigas.
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Re: How do i add second hardrdive?
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2010, 08:53:41 PM »
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What's wrong with HDToolBox? It should do it.

Anyway.. if drive doesn't show up in HDToolBox, have you ran idefix on startup-sequence? Only port 0 works without software on idefix. Or did OS3.9 handle it automatically? Hmm..


my workbench disks are corrupt i have tryed putting them into the df0: but it wont read the install disk? that why i need an alternative
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Re: How do i add second hardrdive?
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2010, 10:03:05 PM »
If FindDevice does not see the drive, HDToolbox will not see it, either. You should first fix this before you search for an alternative to HDToolbox.

Did you enable the "Show all drives" checkbox in FindDevice ? Otherwise it will only show CD and DVD drives.

You can use this as a replacement for HDToolbox: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/hdinst

And this should be able to rescue files from your Workbench disks: http://aminet.net/package/disk/salv/DiskSalv11_32
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