BIG problem

[Omni]

It's big because i can't boot from my harddrive, because of this:

Ok,

Here it goes, I have a new 40 Gb which I partitioned into 10 4 Gb partitions, then I installed OS 3.9 full on it.
Everything is fine 'till here, drive boots ok, but now problems started, firts HDtoolbox freezes or keeps looking into my scsi chain, which is not because all I have is IDE HDD connected to a Z2 buddha flash, I flshed the buddha did many things still can get this problem fixed. Ok but now her comes the really BIG ONE I was copying some fonts from a CD into one of the partitions, somehow it started to show a validation error, ok no problem I thought I just reboot and boot with a floppy and reformat it (using quick format), ok NO that didn't happened, to my despair it didn't boot from the floppy, because it showed 'DH1 validation error at some number' ok and if i cancel it didn't allow me to continue, we'll that was bad so i decided to open the early startup adn disable startup-sequence, didn't work, same error, ok then i decided to disable that partition altogether, it did work, I was manage to boot but I can't find a way to fix that in a permanent way i mean to recover my partition's data or at least get rid of the validation error, because now it's disabled and i can't see it ... nor access it. I still have that problem with hdtoolbox. Any ideas ?

My problem is i'm using a buddha to boot because the IDE port is fried ...

Any suggestions welcome...

Omni

[Omni]

Just one more thing, now CD0 is mounted but it's not showing
in Wb and in shell.

Really weird, just a though has this problem anything to do with 'scsi.device' and SKIPROMUPDATES ?

Mounter is also freezing when trying to scan.

Please I need a solution asap.

Thank you,

Omni

[Morley]

Ok, I'm not familiar with the Buddha, but it could be that it doesn't support drives/partitions larger than 4GB...this seems likely as your problems started when you copied stuff onto one  of the other partitions. What happens then is that when you write to these partrions you actually write to the first partrition....
Check that you have all 4GB patches installed for the Buddha controller, that is my best suggestion ATM!

[Thomas]

'DH1 validation error at some number'

This error should not prevent the system from accessing other partitions or the floppy drive. Even read access to this partition should be possible. There must be something more which is wrong. Probably there are other partition validating and the high CPU usage prevents the floppy drive from loading. (Well, multiple partition becoming invalidated by a copy process to one partition strongly points to a 4GB problem).

HDtoolbox freezes or keeps looking into my scsi chain

Well, the IDE driver is called scsi.device, so you cannot differentiate IDE from SCSI.

To prevent it from freezing, install Boingbag2, I think. And try to disable the ROM update completely for now (rename Devs:AmigaOS ROM Update). You can experiment with it later. The Buddha is not (should not be) effected by the ROM update.

 mean to recover my partition's data or at least get rid of the validation error, because now it's disabled and i can't see it ... nor access it.

Open HDToolbox, go to partition drive, select the defective partition, move the upper end one cylinder to the left and save changes. Reboot and do a full format of the partition. Then change the upper end back to where it was. Make sure you have Boingbag2 installed and use the supplied format program. Other programs will format your first 4GB instead of the selected partition.

Just one more thing, now CD0 is mounted but it's not showing
in Wb and in shell.

Check that the Device and Unit entries in the dosdriver are correct. Use the FindDevice program out of the IDEfix97 archive to determine the correct values.

Ok, I'm not familiar with the Buddha, but it could be that it doesn't support drives/partitions larger than 4GB...this seems likely as your problems started when you copied stuff onto one of the other partitions. What happens then is that when you write to these partrions you actually write to the first partrition....
Check that you have all 4GB patches installed for the Buddha controller, that is my best suggestion ATM!

Well, generally I agree but I cannot believe the Buddha with its latest flash ROM does not support 64bit commands.

Omni: did you update the FastFileSystem on the HDD to the version supplied with OS3.9 (V44) using HDToolbox's Add/Update dialogue ? If you use an old version of FFS it will destroy your data like Morly pointed out.

Bye,
Thomas

[Morley]

Okey, Thomas pointed out one thing that is important, the filesystem... if you used an old 3.0/3.1 install disk or something like that to prep or format your harddrive prior to installing 3.9, you're stuck with the old FFS which stops at 4GB... You should make an emergency boot disk with 3.9 and start from scratch again, just to be sure.
Or perhaps just changing the FFS in hdtoolbox and partition the drives above 4GB will do? I dunno... I'll cross my fingers for you!