Unable to partition a CF (patched kick 1.3)

[DaIceMan]

Hi all,

I am unable to correctly partition a (physical) CF with HD Toolbox (from WB2.04 or 05 or the A590 disk): I create 2 partitions (or even just one) and after I save reboot and re-launch the toolbox I see that there is only one maxxed out partition with end cylinders indicated as "XXXXXX" (the end Cyl is read as 15663 instead of 963). I have tried with various CF cards (256MB, 1GB and 8GB) and they behave all the same way using different USB to CF adapters so it's not an adapter problem. I setup the CF card under WinUAE as indicated by adding it under CF and HD selecting it and then specifiying the Commodore A600/A1200/A4000 IDE interface. The HDToolbox does recognize the sectors and cylinders correctly as seen by WinUAE so that isn't the issue.
As I mentioned I am using a patched Kickstart 1.3 34.5 with scsi.driver 40.5 (I also have one patched with 40.12 but same result). I am booting WB 1.3 (34.20) and using WB 2.04's HDToolbox util. Here are some screenshots:









As you see the partition information is not saved and when read back after re-launching the HDToolbox this is what I get. I tried with different versions of the Toolbox (version from WB 2.04 apparently is the one that works best without giving errors on disk type detection) and the result is the same. If I go ahead and format the single partition it does format it but I get errors when booting as the end cylinder is obviously "Out of bounds" (I can cancel and it will boot successfully even with a partition that is messed up).


Anyone have had this issue?

[desiv]

This probably isn't it, and it's been awhile since I partitioned...
But I remember I had issues with me not hitting return on one of the data entry points when I should have, and as a result it wasn't taking my change and just resaving the original partitioning info...

[DaIceMan]

Thanks for the heads up, but I am hitting return every time when editing any field: when I exit and re-enter I see the correct values. It shouldn't set the last cylinder out of range, there's something up here maybe some incompatibility. Will try on another PC just to be sure!

[DaIceMan]

SOLVED! I was still using WinUAE version 4.something - I downloaded 5.0 and the partitions were created successfully!