09 January 2012, 11:15 | #1 |
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Installing Hard Drive Fujitsu MHK2120AT into A1200
Apologies if this is a very basic question, but I just can't get it to work and would really appreciate any help.
Years and years ago - I had an Amiga 1200 and only used it for playing games. Insert floppy - press reset and away I went. I still have an Amiga 1200, but I'd like to install a hard drive and install some of my old games. Someone was thowing out an old Dell laptop, and I got the hard drive out of it -a Fujitsu MHK2120AT (12GB). http://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/AU/....5inch_IDE.pdf My plan was to try and get it working using Winuae and then transfer to my real machine. I got a USB enclosure, my pc detects it and I thought I was making progress. When I boot up to the Workbench install disk, and fire up HDToolbox - it incorrectly determines the size/configuration of the drive and I don't know what values to provide manually (Cylinders, Heads, Blocks Per Track, Blocks Per Cylinder). What should I do? - Is there a better tool I should use to initialise the drive? - If I should use HDToolbox - can anyone help with the correct values? I have very basic amiga experience so help needs to be fairly basic. I'd really appreciate any pointers anyone could give me - thanks |
09 January 2012, 19:00 | #2 |
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Try HDInsTools, available from aminet.
I have a 320gb MHZ Fujitsu HD and HDInsTools detects it. |
09 January 2012, 22:05 | #3 |
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i use 20 giga without problem, but i use original floppy "install" from os3.0 or 3.1
hdtoolbox from floppy read right size/configuration, next you need create partition minor 2 giga |
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hi have a look at my guides
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=61048 http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=61180 but just miss the cf part out |
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I've tried HDInstTool from Aminet but it came back with the message box "No device found". The values returned from HDToolBox when I press Read Configuration are: Cylinders: 1467 Heads: 1 Blocks Per Track: 16067 Blocks Per Cylinder: 16067 Reduced Write Current Cylinder: 1467 Write PreComp Cylinder: 1467 Size: -805801K (-786 Meg) Last edited by prowler; 10 January 2012 at 23:09. Reason: Back-to-back posts merged. |
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with hdtoolbox, new definition then read config and save on floppy
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How do I get it to return the correct values, or can someone help me manually determine the values, or is there a better tool I should use? |
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10 January 2012, 15:19 | #8 |
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on web
Capacity 12.0 GB Number of Heads 4 Number of Cylinders (User) 14784 |
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my toshiba 20gb cyl 16383 heads 16 block for track 63 block for cyl 1008 park 16383 size (-132080) -128k on aminet search patch for hdtoolbox is for large hd Last edited by prowler; 10 January 2012 at 23:11. Reason: Back-to-back posts merged and quote added. |
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Blocks per Cylinder = Blocks per Track * Heads Or Blocks per Cylinder = Size of Harddrive / Bytes per Block / Cylinders Blocks per Track = Blocks per Cylinder / Heads Last edited by prowler; 10 January 2012 at 23:13. Reason: Back-to-back posts merged. |
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11 January 2012, 10:28 | #12 |
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I guess I was hoping that it would detect it as a 12GB drive, but looks like I was being hopelessly optimistic.
I fully appreciate that these kind of drives weren't around when the Amiga was popular. I was also surpised to see Blocks Per Track being the same as Blocks Per Cylinder. What should I do - just go with the default settings, create a partition and install workbench? |
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The same problem will appear when you create partions: it will always display a number less than 4096 MB as partition size, but the real partition size is correct (n * 4096 + what it displays) |
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I am sure there are other threads in this forum which cover the topic already in every depth. These links might be a good start:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=32256 http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/4gb_faq.html |
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