| From: | Colin Wenzel |
| Date: | 13 May 2000 at 16:40:37 |
| Subject: | Re: 3.5 Inch IDE drive install |
On 13-May-00, Marion E. Wyatt wrote:
> On 11-May-00 at 17:48:39, Don Cox wrote these words of wisdom:
>> On 10-May-00, Robert Bondy wrote:
>>> HD Tool Box on 3.5 is crap! It won't recognise an
>>> unitialised drive. If you can, use the HDTool box version
>>> that came with 3.0 or 3.1.
>>
>> I bought a SCSI hard drive, and partitioned and formatted it with
>> the Boing Bag version of HDToolbox. No problems. It recognised the
>> drive OK.
>
> Same here. I installed and partitioned my 18gb with the HDToolbox
> from BB1 without any problems. I believe the version that came on the
> OS3.5 CD may have a bug, but BB1 fixes that. My drive is SCSI too,
> but IDE or SCSI it should be the same.
>
The version from BB1 has the problem too, it seems to only
affects drives on IDE busses that have NEVER seen AmigaOS,
most likely pre-formatted with MSDOS...
AND, it only happens on some drives....
But, once it is recognised (installed) there appears to be
no other problems, but keep v3.1 around for a while
incase you strike a stubborn one...
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AMIGA: 4000T, 68060/50, 150Mb RAM,
OS 3.5, EGS Spectrum.
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