@sundown
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sundown wrote: Ok, installed the 160G drive, installed the SLB & created 2 partitions, a 35GB SFS & a 114GB SFS2. Both showed on the WB & both partitions quick formated just fine. This is a Seagate drive, maybe Western Digital drives are a problem.

Ok but have you tried coping anything of suptance to it like perhaps 'C:', or doing a full formmat on it.
I also can create partitions and "Quick Format" the drive but when I try to copy "C:" to it a few files might copy and then a "block write" error occurs. Same thing happens when I try to do a "Full Format". It starts to format but quickly gives me a block error.

I tried installing the original version of OS4.0 and setting the drive up and I get the same results. I also dug up the same version of SLB that my main 160G Seagate drive is using, v1.12 and tried thet. Same results. The current version is v1.16. (Can someone point me to what has changed?)

At this point I'm suspecting a bad drive. I've tried different cables, master slave configurations, and everything else I can think of so there doesn't seem to be to many other alternatives.

My son says he thinks he has an extra EIDE drive so I'm going to get it from him later today and try that. I'll let you know the results.

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@ktadd

have you set blocksize=512

and btw ... never use full format.

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@ktadd

I just copied my whole system partition to both partitions, no errors, 300MBs worth.

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@Ned & all

Sorry I took so long to respond. Thanks for describing how those drives worked. Sounds like a good way to use multiple drives. I have only one hard drive in my Antec Minuet II case. It is possible to mount a second hard drive, but it is a real pain to hook up to the IDE interface.

Anyways, as sundown indicated you have to use 512 block size for JXF\04. Unfortunately, the default is 1024 and you have to change it to 512 before you save.

Well ... I have some good news and some bad news.

I added another partition to my Western Digital hard drive .... 160 GB JXF\04.

As per instructions from Media Toolbox, I let the machine restart to recognize the new partition. The new partition showed up as DH3 unformatted. I did a quick format. It was a beauty to behold. I copied two videos into it and a text document. All seemed ok. Both videos played just fine.

The I did a cold boot (power off/on) ...

Please insert volume
ENV:
in any drive.


Lucky thing I burned a bootable backup to CD-R before I added the new partition ...

I am posting from my system which is currently running on that bootable CD.

Bye bye for now. I have a system to recover.

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@all

OK, I deleted my 160 GB partition and now I'm back in business.

I'll let my system "soak" for a few days just to make sure there are no after-effects.

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MicroA1 + AmigaOS 4.1 with QuickFixes
Western Digital 250 GB hard drive

Last edited by redfox on 15-Aug-2009 at 10:12 PM.

@Hypex

Well I think C:DumpDebugBuffer is telling me something, but I'm not quite sure what to do with it. Here is the last part of it:

No SOLO_ONE found!
No SB128 found!
No FM801 found!
No Envy24HT found!
No Envy24 found!
reg_pio_data_io/3 returned error 42, failbits 00000000h, timeout 0
[a1ide/irq_wait] timed out
[a1ide/exec_pio_data_in_cmd]

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@Hypex

After setting the block size to 512 bytes, the JXFS partitions show up on my system after rebooting. I then issued the command:
format drive RH0: name junk quick
and the system just freezes. The mouse quits responding. I tried this several times and it always seems to just freeze. Any thoughts?

@Ned

Have you tried quick-formatting from Workbench?

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@RacerX

I just tried the quick format from workbench and the same thing happens. The system freezes immediately.

@Framiga
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Framiga wrote: @ktadd have you set blocksize=512 and btw ... never use full format.

Yes, block size set to 512. I probably wasn't clear. I didn't do a low level format from Media Toolbox, I did a full format from Workbench. A full fomat from workbench is fine to do on a drive. It's a good way to check the integerity of the drive.

By the way, I had a Western Digital 120G - 2.5" laptop drive sitting around so I went to the local hoppy shop and picked up a 2.5" to 3.5" interface adapter for $1 hooked the drive up. I'm happy to report it works just fine. It will now be my backup drive. I created a 1.5G bootable SFS\00 system partition and the rest of the drive is a single SFS\O2 partition for backups.

Seems OS4.1 is fine. I guess I'll be returning that brand new WD 320G drive. On the plus side the 2.5" drive tucks away nicely in my cube case.

Thanks for all the reports and suggestions.

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My latest update is as follows. I had actually ordered two 500 GB hard drives. On the assumption that perhaps I had some genuine I/O problems with the first drive, I tried the same things with the second drive. The results are identical for all practical purposes. Using an FFS file system, when I try formatting the first partition, I get a requester poping up with an I/O error. Using a JXFS file system, when I try formatting the first partition (with both CLI and Workbench), the system just locks up. I think I'm out of ideas for things to try.

@Ned

i would check/replace the flat cable at this point!

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@Ned

First thing is to check your Kickstart/Layout file & make sure none of the 3 filesystem libs are commented out. You may have a uboot setting thats not right, in a shell, type nvgetvar >ram:uboot. Open that file in a text editor & copy past it here. Also make sure the slb file is installed on each drive & saved.

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@sundown

There is an SLB on the drive. Here are the uboot settings:

bootcmd=menu; run menuboot_cmd
bootdelay=0
baudrate=115200
preboot=
stdout=vga
stdin=ps2kbd
ide_doreset=on
ide_cd_timeout=30
menucmd=menu
bootmethod=boota
video_num=1
ethact=3Com 3c920c#0
video_activate=pci
serial1_address=3f8
serial2_address=2f8
parallel_mode=0
parallel_address=378
usb0_enable=on
usb1_enable=on
usb_use_header=1
ide_maxbus=2
ide_swap=0
ethaddr=00:09:D2:28:03:1A
ipaddr=
serverip=
boot1=cdrom
boot2=ide
boot3=
boot_config=Default
boota_timeout=3
boot_method=boota
menuboot_delay=5
os4_commandline=debuglevel=0
bootargs=root=/dev/ram rw ramdisk=4096
pci_irqa=9
pci_irqa_select=level
pci_irqb=10
pci_irqb_select=level
pci_irqc=11
pci_irqc_select=level
pci_irqd=7
pci_irqd_select=level
agp_enable=on
agp_sideband=off
agp_speed=2x
limit_memory=256
use_memory_limit=no

@Ned

Looks close to my settings, only thing I don't see is the a1ide_conf setting which tells uboot your HD/CDROM configuration. Not sure that would make any difference if your system boots normal. Out of ideas at this point.

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@sundown

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sundown wrote: @Moxee Quote: So, what happened? Had laser surgery this (Friday) morning, takes 24 hrs to see right again. I should be able to install the new drive this weekend. It's a Seagate drive & will replace my current backup drive. Plan 2 partitions, 40G & 120G.

It has been a couple of weeks now. How are your eyes?

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@Moxee

Wow, forgot about this thread. Laser treatment worked so well, the doc had to take my eye pressure twice because he didn't believe the first reading.
Pressure went from 30 down to 17, anything below 28 is considered safe, below 20 is normal. We'll se if it holds when I go back in December.

The new drive's doing just fine as well.

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@Ned
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No SOLO_ONE found! No SB128 found! No FM801 found! No Envy24HT found! No Envy24 found!

You should remove unused AHI drivers.

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reg_pio_data_io/3 returned error 42, failbits 00000000h, timeout 0 [a1ide/irq_wait] timed out [a1ide/exec_pio_data_in_cmd]

Looks like a problem. Maybe the driver tells you more if you set the a1ide_verbose UBoot envvar. Try to set a1ide_conf maybe the hdd is not autodetected correctly.

@sundown

Great on both accounts then!

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I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.