Hard Drive A1200

drusso66 · 27 July 2004, 00:02

I have just starting using Amiga 1200 after many years just leaving it packed away in my roof loft.
I have decided to upgrade my hard drive from 2.5" 450MB drive hard drive to a bigger 3.2 gig hitachi hard drive which has come out of a laptop.

THe problem I am having is getting the amiga sotware to recognise the correct parameters and size ot the drive I have used the RDPrep program and also the HDtool that comes with WORKBENCH 1.3.
When I run Rdprep it tells me to fix the parameters by using the complex mode and manually changing the settings, but all I have managed to get is a 2mb partition from a 3.2 gig drive.
I got a better setting by changing the parameters in the HDtool to aprox 1.2 gig.

My hitachi drive label shows CYL 6282 H 16 S63

Can any one please put me in thge right direction

drusso66 · 27 July 2004, 00:04

Sorry typing error I meant Workbench 3.1 not 1.3

adgloride · 27 July 2004, 00:48

Your problem is that the amiga can only have a maximum partition of 2gb. So for your drive to work properly you'll have 2 partitions for example one will have to be 2gb and the other 1.2gb.

27 July 2004, 08:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by adgloride

Your problem is that the amiga can only have a maximum partition of 2gb. So for your drive to work properly you'll have 2 partitions for example one will have to be 2gb and the other 1.2gb.

No.

Old FFS == max partition of 2GB
Old scsi.device == max anything of 4GB

PFS3,SFS == any size partition your device driver can handle (in this case, scsi.device and 4GB)

drusso66 · 27 July 2004, 08:21

But my problem is that the programs I am using will not set the correct parameters, to recognise the capictiy of the drive, this is before I even try to make a partition.
It will set the Cylinders, heads and sectors correctly, but I think the setting that is crucial is the blocks per cylinder, I may be wrong am not sure but it is really bugging me because the hard drive is recognised straight away on my Laptops Bios as a 3.2 gig.

thomas · 27 July 2004, 13:06

Run HDToolbox, select "'Change drive type", choose SCSI (should already be), click on "Define New...", click on "Read Configuration". Check that Cylinders = 6282, Heads = 16 and Blocks per track = 63. Blocks per Cylinder is calculated automatically = 1008. The size will be shown as -1004 Meg. This is because it is larger than 2GB, but does not harm. Now click on Ok twice and choose "Partition drive". You should be able to partition the entire 3.2 GB now. Don't forget to "Save Changes to Drive" before you leave the program.

killergorilla · 27 July 2004, 13:23

Yep thomas that's exactly what I did. I have a hitachi 3.2gb drive sitting in my pc at the moment, waiting to be transferred to my miggy once it's got my games on it.

Cheers for the help with my hdd a little while ago Thomas, much appreciated.

drusso66 · 27 July 2004, 20:00

Cheers Thomas, I did exactly as you described worked a treat, Thanks Again mate.

27 July 2004, 00:02	#1
drusso66 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Peterborough UK Age: 57 Posts: 97	Hard Drive A1200 I have just starting using Amiga 1200 after many years just leaving it packed away in my roof loft. I have decided to upgrade my hard drive from 2.5" 450MB drive hard drive to a bigger 3.2 gig hitachi hard drive which has come out of a laptop. THe problem I am having is getting the amiga sotware to recognise the correct parameters and size ot the drive I have used the RDPrep program and also the HDtool that comes with WORKBENCH 1.3. When I run Rdprep it tells me to fix the parameters by using the complex mode and manually changing the settings, but all I have managed to get is a 2mb partition from a 3.2 gig drive. I got a better setting by changing the parameters in the HDtool to aprox 1.2 gig. My hitachi drive label shows CYL 6282 H 16 S63 Can any one please put me in thge right direction

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27 July 2004, 00:04	#2
drusso66 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Peterborough UK Age: 57 Posts: 97	Sorry typing error I meant Workbench 3.1 not 1.3

27 July 2004, 00:48	#3
adgloride Amiga Mod Chipper Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: UK Age: 51 Posts: 229	Your problem is that the amiga can only have a maximum partition of 2gb. So for your drive to work properly you'll have 2 partitions for example one will have to be 2gb and the other 1.2gb.

27 July 2004, 08:21	#5
drusso66 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Peterborough UK Age: 57 Posts: 97	But my problem is that the programs I am using will not set the correct parameters, to recognise the capictiy of the drive, this is before I even try to make a partition. It will set the Cylinders, heads and sectors correctly, but I think the setting that is crucial is the blocks per cylinder, I may be wrong am not sure but it is really bugging me because the hard drive is recognised straight away on my Laptops Bios as a 3.2 gig.

27 July 2004, 13:06	#6
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 7,002	Run HDToolbox, select "'Change drive type", choose SCSI (should already be), click on "Define New...", click on "Read Configuration". Check that Cylinders = 6282, Heads = 16 and Blocks per track = 63. Blocks per Cylinder is calculated automatically = 1008. The size will be shown as -1004 Meg. This is because it is larger than 2GB, but does not harm. Now click on Ok twice and choose "Partition drive". You should be able to partition the entire 3.2 GB now. Don't forget to "Save Changes to Drive" before you leave the program.

27 July 2004, 13:23	#7
killergorilla Lesser Talent Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 7,957	Yep thomas that's exactly what I did. I have a hitachi 3.2gb drive sitting in my pc at the moment, waiting to be transferred to my miggy once it's got my games on it. Cheers for the help with my hdd a little while ago Thomas, much appreciated.

27 July 2004, 20:00	#8
drusso66 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Peterborough UK Age: 57 Posts: 97	Cheers Thomas, I did exactly as you described worked a treat, Thanks Again mate.

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