Amiga 500 IDE HD Issue

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I am one of those lucky people who have an Amiga 500 with an IDE controller. Kind of like the one people are working on now but done in the 90s by the previous owner of the Amiga. It is currently running Kickstart 1.3, WB 1.3

However recently my drive died. It was a 40MB Quantum GO Drive

I am now trying to replace it with a newer laptop drive. Currently I have an IBM Travelstar 6.49 GB. (I know about a 4GB limit).

I mounted the new drive in WinUAE and booted it into Workbench 3.1. Using the HDTools I created a 1GB partition and formatted it (not using FFS)

However when I hook it up to my Amiga 500 and load WB13 it won't show up in the Workbench desktop. There is no Icon.

My question is, am I missing a step? Do I have to mount it somehow? I am desperate to get my Amiga working again, please help.

 

[bebek]

let us know hdd controller type ...

 

[Toni.Wilen]

OFS only works reliably up to 40M or so. Never use OFS if partition is larger. (if "not using FFS" equals "using OFS")

Your controller have some size limits, for old IDE controller even 1G can be too large. (boot rom limit/bug).

 

[cpiace64]

use a cf 32mega with adapter ide40-cf

i used this system on my roctech800c with 128mega cf

 

[3583Bytes]

let us know hdd controller type ...

I wish I knew, I never installed it. Its the one that fits under the main processor with a wire going across the motherboard. I have seen modern versions of it but this one was actually done in the 90s.

I can take a picture if that helps?

---------- Post added at 15:58 ---------- Previous post was at 15:56 ----------

OFS only works reliably up to 40M or so. Never use OFS if partition is larger. (if "not using FFS" equals "using OFS")

Your controller have some size limits, for old IDE controller even 1G can be too large. (boot rom limit/bug).

So I should make a OFS 40MB partition and see if that works? Is there a mount command or something I should try? Does Workbench 1.3 support FFS?

 

[Toni.Wilen]

I guess it is ICD AdIDE. AFAIK older versions of AdIDE are not RDB (can't use hdtoolbox) compatible, you have to use AdIDE install disk.

FFS works with 1.3.

EDIT: I forgot, AdIDE has byteswapped data lines = drive has to be partitioned when connected to AdIDE (even if it is RDB compatible version), it can't be partitioned using WinUAE. WinUAE does support it only if drive has been pre-AdIDE partitioned.

 

[3583Bytes]

I guess it is ICD AdIDE. AFAIK older versions of AdIDE are not RDB (can't use hdtoolbox) compatible, you have to use AdIDE install disk.

FFS works with 1.3.

EDIT: I forgot, AdIDE has byteswapped data lines = drive has to be partitioned when connected to AdIDE (even if it is RDB compatible version), it can't be partitioned using WinUAE. WinUAE does support it only if drive has been pre-AdIDE partitioned.

After your AdIDE hint I looked online and I managed to find the original software called ICDPrepHD-42.dms (Used WinUAE to convert it to ADF and using a null modem Amiga Explorer to copy it to a diskette)

It worked (almost) it mounted and saw the hard drive but it gave a Guru during the partition creation. However I think it should now be just the matter of figuring out the right Hard Drive / Configuration to get it working. Maybe a smaller partition or a different drive. I will post an update if it works.


Thanks

 

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Well the software worked on a 20GB Toshiba Drive. I got about 1.2 GB out of it. Not sure why but that is the size it wanted to make. Thank you for all the help.

Are there any tools I can use to scan the drive for errors? Disk Doctor won't handle a drive that large.