Hi there,

Forgive me for being a total and absolute novice.

I attached a large empty USB HD on my mac mini Morphos 2.7. It shows up as 0 bytes free space available. Is that normal?

I tried formatting it, but it's taking forever... It actually didn't finish. We had a power loss mid-way through.

Hey Fester nice to see you active with your system. About your issue, you may need a bit more info
for example - size, type, poseidon's logs ect. I'm not an expert, but I've had my issues. I would paste a link, to one of my threads, but I would have to reboot
since there is a bug exclusive to my system which prevents me to copy, paste, back space, or highlight when I use a game emulation, so since I'm downloading
currently, search the forums for Re: 1TB USB HD in any event search through if noone else answers.


[ Edited by xyphoid 07.07.2011 - 23:07 ]

How large and what filesystem is it using? And did you try quick format (which shouild be enough)?

I've used 3 different 1TB drives and several smaller without problems. They've been preformatted to FAT. And also reformatted one 250GB one to SFS (with enough partitions).

NTFS formated?

NTFS Its read only at MorphOS => 0 Bytes free to write.

Thanks for your advice everyone.

- It was NTFS formatted when I added it to my Morphos system.
- I tried the quick format, but it wouldn't let me do that.
- It's a 500 GB drive, so the normal format was going for days.

I just thought it would be nice to be able to backup Morphos. Since I'm not very experienced with this os, I want to back it up before I mangle it completely.

I'll try again.

fat farmat on a win/mac or linux if you can it'd be faster

Thanks xyphoid

That sounds like a plan.

Have you changed the filesystem with HD Config before formatting? I suggest to use the same filesystem as your internal hdd.
If you decide generally for a rdb disk layout keep in mind, that rdb disks are not readable with Win (or are there tools for that available?).