| From: | Brian Haug |
| Date: | 23 Jan 2000 at 22:18:25 |
| Subject: | Re: IDE drives: >8G support (conflict & Dopus 5.82) |
From: Brian Haug <hoggy@execpc.com>
Replying to myself..
On Thursday, 20-Jan-00 at 13:31:01, I wrote:
> One of the main reasons that I upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1/3.5(-BB1)
> was so that I could try to use my 12.6G(labeled 13G) Maxtor IDE.
> (This is on my A4000D built-in IDE interface - setup in SIG.)
> BTW, this 12.6G Maxtor is a 'DiamondMax' EIDE/UDMA 66 - I've
> even tried their 'special' cable that 'has' to be used - I have
> left it in there for now.
>
> IDE HD's on my system: 6.8G Maxtor(master), 12.6G Maxtor(slave).
> ^^^(the ONLY _HD's_ on my setup - scsi is too expensive ATM)
Solved my problem! FINALLY! =)
Thanks to those that repied!
I exchanged the 12.6 Maxtor with a 13.0 Maxtor - had the same problems.
I just exchanged it for a 17G Western Digital and it works PERFECTLY!
HDTB recognized that 'a drive was added or removed' as soon as I
started it up this time. (The WD is /also/ a 'UDMA/ATA' EIDE drive)
I find it VERY STRANGE that *_3* Maxtors_ wouldn't work together.. This
certainly dispells the myth that drive manufacturers do this 'on purpose'
in order to force us to stick with THEIR drives!
But now I have come accross an SFS limit of some sort. (as 1-16G part)
so.. I formated it with OS3.5's FFS 45.1 - FFS works fine so far.
I have already come accross FFS's 30 char limit though...
CAN'T WAIT UNTIL PFS3 ARRIVES!! =))
NOW, another strange problem has cropped up:
Amiga's 'Info' command shows the drive as 16G, but the info that
Dopus 5.82 gives is bogus?!? Does anyone know offhand if this is a
known problem with Dopus? (I have to check my Dopus ML archive)
Regards,
Brian Haug
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