Hi all!

I have just bought a new hdd maxtor 160 gigs which works absolutely perfectly... well, not that absolutely... I connected it, scsiconfig correctly recognised it, so I partitioned it, I formated all partitions and moved there all the data from my old hdd. But after reboot, it told me: 'filesystem not recognised', so I booted from my old hdd and used the 'hdwrite' to clear the mbr... but then it told me the same. I used: 'ls /pci/ide/disk@0,0' and everything seemed correct, I added ':0' and it didn't write anything, like if the partition is empty.

I really don't know, what to do. I checked everything, and it's the same, as on my old boot partition. I'm not new, to morphos, so I know, how to do things, but after everything, that could cause this, it still doesn't work.

Please help.

btw: I ofcourse have the boot partition set and formated to FFS.

Thanks in advance!

Bye, MarK.

lo MarK,
what is the start and the end Cyl. for your boot partition? i dont know it the smartfirmware has access to the complette 160GB.

cu the antibike

Well, I haven't it right here, but afaik, I set the boot partition to 512 megs and the start cyl was 2.

bye, MarK.

btw: could it be caused by the HDD manufacturer? it's Maxtor, i heard, that this can cause also some troubles...

[ Edited by MarK on 2005/3/1 20:22 ]

Mark

Cant help much with your prob since I havent used a drive that big with mos but I have a Maxtor Diamond pro 40gb here that works perfectly - never a prob.

magnetic

I have 2 Maxtor (100GB + 120GB) in my Peg2 and both work flawless. So I wonder, where did you hear that Maxtor HDD can cause troubles? And what are these troubles?

I can confirm todi's comment. 2 Maxtor (120 GB + 120 GB) here since one year, and never had problems.

I have a 160 GB Samsung, so the size of Disk should not matter. You made a new Partition, then reebooted and formated the Drive - right?

Are you sure the Drive is set to "Master" and is on the first ide channel? (Reading your Post points to it - but better make sure it is )

Maybe you try to install from CD first and look how this works.

There was a "bug" in some Firmware Revisions that let certain drives only show up after a Reset but not after a cold restart.

That's all i can think of in the first line...

Bye

Donar

[ Edited by Donar on 2005/3/3 7:10 ]

Samsung 200GB boots fine here. ;) But I can't copy file through shell or DOpus to the over-138GB part of the disk, but it works with Ambient.

Hi Mark. I have just bought Maxtor 160GB DiamondMax 10 too I have the same problem "filesystem not supported", but after "hdwrite ide.device 0 mossys:c/reboot 0" (cca 800bytes) it's ok and Maxtor works perfectly. Try to type "ls ide" in OF, to check if you completly remove MBR.

@luky-amiga:

I tried it several times, this was the first thing I tried. But it seams, that nothing happend. I will check it out again. What's your hdd settings? I mean number of heads, cylinders, sectors etc...

Thx.

Bye, MarK.

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Whoa! So Ambient has it's own filesystem, able to get where "dos.library" can't?

@jcmarcos:
Maybe, I don't know... But it's very interesting and very annoying, that I can't access the end of my HDD, only from Ambient and from Linux.

Hi all!

That's very strange... The HDD started working when I followed (step by step) the Pegasos2 installation manual. I didn't make any other things, than before, but this time, it started to work

And one more thing, I tried to lowlevel format the hard drive in the scsi config, and I found those 'funny' messages very annoying and stupid. I'm sorry to say this, but it's better to say 'sorry, this function is unsupported' than that...

Bye, MarK.

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Hm.. What are these "funny" messages? :) (I don't want to low-level format my HDD :))

Just try to use 'lowlevel format' in scsiconfig, and You will see it for Yourself... Don't be affraid, it won't let You format the harddrive

Bye, MarK.