>4GB HDD not formatting correctly

[Radertified]

I am using Kickstart and Workbench 3.1 on a WinUAE A1200 config. I'm trying to create a 6gb hardfile but am having issues.

- Created and attached 6gb hardfile in WinUAE (RDB mode enabled)
- Launched HDToolBox (using uaehf.device) and set the drive to use PFS3 (pfs3_aio-handler) with a mask of 0x7ffffffe and max transfer of 0x1fe00. I've deleted all partitions and am left with just one, sized 2031mb. As I understand it, this is purely cosmetic so it's actually 6gb.
- When I go to quick format the drive (also tried using pfsformat), it says "2031M capacity". I tried quick formatting anyway and when done, the drive says it has "1629M free"

My question is, how do I format this drive to show all 6gb? It seems like it's correctly partitioned, but I can't get it formatted correctly.

I have not installed anything other than PFS3 AIO, so if something else is required (preferably free), please let me know.

Thanks!

[thomas]

Originally Posted by Radertified

My question is, how do I format this drive to show all 6gb? It seems like it's correctly partitioned, but I can't get it formatted correctly.

The drive formatted correctly. It's Workbench which is not able to display big numbers. You cannot change this.

[Radertified]

Originally Posted by thomas

The drive formatted correctly. It's Workbench which is not able to display big numbers. You cannot change this.

Oh, I see!

A couple of followup questions:

- If I began copying files to the drive, will it bypass the figures it gives and correctly copy up to ~6gb data?
- Is there any methods of finding out how much is actually left on the drive?
- Without updating to 3.5/3.9, is there any patches available to get correct numbers or is this a permanent thing?

Thanks for the help!

[thomas]

Originally Posted by Radertified

- If I began copying files to the drive, will it bypass the figures it gives and correctly copy up to ~6gb data?

Yes, it will. Only if the program you use for copying checks the free space on the destination drive, it might refuse to copy because of lack of space.

- Is there any methods of finding out how much is actually left on the drive?

The Info command shows free and used number of blocks. Multiply by block size (usually 512) to get the number of bytes.

- Without updating to 3.5/3.9, is there any patches available to get correct numbers or is this a permanent thing?

Even 3.5+ does not fix it because every program needs to be fixed individually. Only OS components are updated by 3.5.

AmigaDOS returns the number of blocks and the block size. With a block size of 512 bytes up to 2 TB could be supported this way. But it is up to each program to deal with this information. Most programs just multiply these two values and overflow above 4 GB.

[Radertified]

Thank you, thomas! I appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions

[daxb]

Originally Posted by Radertified

- Is there any methods of finding out how much is actually left on the drive?

I recommend this "Info" command replacement:
http://aminet.net/package/util/sys/info

Example output:

16. System:> info
Unit    Size    Used    Free Full Errs   State    Type    Name
DF0:Keine Diskette im Laufwerk
DH0:  735.6M   81.1M  654.5M  11%    0 read/write SFS0    System
DH1:    2.1G  607.1M    1.5G  28%    0 read/write SFS0    Tools
DH2:    3.4G    2.8G  614.6M  82%    0 read/write SFS0    Work
DH3:    1.6G  592.6M    1.0G  36%    0 read/write SFS0    Temp
DH4:   12.9G    7.6G    5.3G  59%    0 read/write SFS2    Rec
DH9:    3.4G    1.3G    2.0G  40%    0 read/write SFS0    Games
ENV:     86K     76K     10K  88%    0 read/write OFS     dax
RAM:   14.2M      0K   14.2M   0%    0 read/write OFS     Ram

Volumes
dax             [Mounted] erstellt: So 15.03.2015  11:20:43
Games           [Mounted] erstellt: Sa  8.07.2006  12:36:21
Ram             [Mounted] erstellt: So 15.03.2015  11:20:42
Rec             [Mounted] erstellt: Sa  8.07.2006  01:18:44
System          [Mounted] erstellt: Sa  6.12.2008  15:03:43
Temp            [Mounted] erstellt: Di 10.01.2012  12:22:26
Tools           [Mounted] erstellt: Sa  8.07.2006  01:17:10
Work            [Mounted] erstellt: Sa  8.07.2006  01:18:15

[Radertified]

Originally Posted by daxb

I recommend this "Info" command replacement:
http://aminet.net/package/util/sys/info

Thanks daxb! That's a phenomenal replacement!

[daxb]

Stephan Rupprecht did some more great replacements.