AmigaOS3.5 (21/967)

From:Don Cox
Date:1 May 2000 at 17:43:44
Subject:Re: Fujitsu 20G IDE_HDD

On 30-Apr-00, Robert Bondy wrote:

> I, too, had a problem with the recognition of a drive after my system
> went down and I had to reinstall the OS. It seems that HDToolbox in
> 3.5 is buggy and won't recognise uninitialised or unformatted drives.
>
> My solution: boot with my original OS3.0 floppy and use HDToolbox 3.0
> found on that. It recognises the drive and you can install the
> BootBlock etc. Then you can go back to OS3.5 and use use it's toolbox
> to continue.

I had no problems partitioning and formatting a 9Gig SCSI drive with
HDToolbox from the BoingBag.

The version on the OS3.5 CD is known to be buggy.

Regards



Don Cox
doncox@enterprise.net

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