Large Hard-drives

[britlord]

Guys. Has anyone successfully setup a large HD under WB 3.1. I got nowhere. Though I did under OS3.9 using the newer HDtoolbox (and OS3.9 files) but when I copyed all the classic WB 3.1 files onto the drive (I made a 500meg for the System, 2.5 GB for the App, and 11.5 GB for games), it wouldn't boot up in winuae or my real Amiga (I used pfs3_aio-handler) is there a way to do it. This is what I ended up doing on my 10 GB hard-drive. 250MB (System), 1.5GB (app), just under 4 GB for games.But there's still unused space. But I would like to use a 15 GB Hard-drive instead (and fill it all up)..

Mike..

 

[fitzsteve]

Hi!

Check out my guide here:

[m]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqUiNARd-bg[/m]

I show first setting up with Classic WB 3.9 and then one of the packs based on 3.1 (ADV SP IIRC)

 

[britlord]

Hi!

Check out my guide here:

[m]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqUiNARd-bg[/m]

Steve. I did partition the drive using 3.9 HDToolbox and ps3 thingie using you guide. But since my AMIGA don't have the extra to run OS3.9. I copy all the Full Classic WB to the HD0 on the drive instead (Bootable). But the computer only booted to a cli screen (I spent all day on it) It looks like that partition the drive to a large one using 3.9 HDToolbox and ps3 thingie is not compatible with WB 3.1. What's your thoughts on that. Maybe a guide on how to do it for us WB 3.1 user's (If it can be done).. Oh I did try your guide on WB 3.1. But still had the same problem, and also couldn't open up the system drive..


Mike..

 

[fitzsteve]

You must be doing something wrong as without large drive support all what will happen is you just wont see the larger partition (it will show as uninitialised on the Workbench) It should still boot.

The fact it does not boot suggests an issue with the Classic Workbench install you have setup, try making that again.

The Larger Drive will show up after you patch the scsi.device as shown towards the end of my Video.

Also make sure your Amiga has enough Ram, if you don't have any Rm expansion then you wont be able to use a drive that size with PFS3 and any of the heavy Classic Workbench packs, it will gobble up 2mb long before it even finishes booting.

What are the specs of your Amiga?

 

[britlord]

You must be doing something wrong as without large drive support all what will happen is you just wont see the larger partition (it will show as uninitialised on the Workbench) It should still boot.

The fact it does not boot suggests an issue with the Classic Workbench install you have setup, try making that again.

The Larger Drive will show up after you patch the scsi.device as shown towards the end of my Video.

Also make sure your Amiga has enough Ram, if you don't have any Rm expansion then you wont be able to use a drive that size with PFS3 and any of the heavy Classic Workbench packs, it will gobble up 2mb long before it even finishes booting.

What are the specs of your Amiga?

My Amiga has a 8 meg Ram expansion card fitted but (With 40MHz FPU) But I have issues with it. when booting up , it starts to load WB then the power LED flashes and then reboots keeps doing that over and over again, so I messed with the jumpers (There's 3 of them on the board) and was able to boot all the way to WB but the fast ram was just 2.5meg. I've tried other settings but all I get is the same problem..

Oh are you sure that the number for partitioning is 0x50465303 and not 0x50465300..

Update Steve I did it again and it now bloody WORKS. You know what I did wrong. Well at the end I didn't patch the scsi device. How I'll try doing it on my 80GB hard-drive



Mike..

 

[fitzsteve]

Yes the Identifier is 0x50465303 for PFS3 but it's just to give you the name PFS3 in the drop down, it doesn't break anything if you don't change it.

Is you Ram board an Amitek Hawk by any chance? Mine would never work with 8mb with Classic Workbench, there are a few threads about it on various forums, a long one on EAB.

2.5mb left is about right after booting if you have only 4mb Fast Ram. You might be better off using the lite Classic Workbench pack as it does not have Scalos so uses less Ram.

You should also reduce your HDD buffers as a massive HDD with a lot of buffers will eat your Ram.

 

[britlord]

It's like the hawk board. but the jumpers are in a different place. and I can't get it to boot all the way unless I change the jumpers to just 2.5MB fast available.. (is the ram board faulty) but it has a 8 simm fitted)

Mike..

Oh I tried to do a 80GB drive but all I get is Error 7 in drive description, and how do I change the HDD buffers. (15 GB fitted)

 

[fitzsteve]

Normally you can just ignore the drive 7 error and just type the drive name yourself. An 80gb drive might be more suited to an environment with bags of Fast Ram though.

I don't think the card is faulty, it's a problem that's been reported by others. It will probably boot fine with 8mb from a Workbench Disk but obviously that's not a lot if use to you.

You could try and ultra light setup, BetterWB would be better suited to your Ram limitations or consider upgrading to an 030 accelerator with 16mb+ if you want to use the Classic Workbench packs laced with eye candy.

 

[britlord]

Normally you can just ignore the drive 7 error and just type the drive name yourself. An 80gb drive might be more suited to an environment with bags of Fast Ram though.

I don't think the card is faulty, it's a problem that's been reported by others. It will probably boot fine with 8mb from a Workbench Disk but obviously that's not a lot if use to you.

You could try and ultra light setup, BetterWB would be better suited to your Ram limitations or consider upgrading to an 030 accelerator with 16mb+ if you want to use the Classic Workbench packs laced with eye candy.

Ok Steve. Though in the end I was able to do it (I didn't patch the scsi file, so that was the problem)as for the Ram card with 8 Meg in it is useless then (Can't boot the drive to WB only with the 4 MB setting) The ram board is a Marpet 8 meg ram board. But you right. The computer does boot off a WB floppy but don't see HD2 (Games) as formatted 10 GB).....

Mike..

 

[Firthy2002]

I had no joy using OS3.1's HDToolbox, in the end I just used 3.9's.

Someone needs to write a free HDToolbox replacement which supports 64-bit addressing.

 

[britlord]

I had no joy using OS3.1's HDToolbox, in the end I just used 3.9's.

Someone needs to write a free HDToolbox replacement which supports 64-bit addressing.

Yep your right..