Re: 250 gig hard drives
Hi,
I didn't realize that I could partition the drive with amiga-fdisk. It
seems to me that the Debian that I have on my system is from 1999 or 2000
(just the files to install it), so maybe you had to use HDtoolbox back
then. Could tell me what your hard drive geometry looks like in HDtoolbox
and what the partitions look like there? Also, what kind of drive are you
using? Hopefully that will shed some light on the problems that I have
been having.
I have been using netbsd for the last few years and I can't seem to
remember how to use the network under Amiga OS. It would seem like it
would be the best thing to install the version of Debian that I have, and
then upgrad it, but maybe it would make more sense to do an install from
netbsd, if that could be done. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Al
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:19:38 +0100
> From: Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org>
> To: DataZap <az@datazap.net>
> Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: 250 gig hard drives
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:38:06PM -0700, DataZap wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone on this list has put a 250 gig hard drive in an
> > Amiga with an "Acard" scsi-to-ide bridge. I know that it can be done, and
> > although I would need to put the boot partition in the first 2 gig of the
> > drive, Linux doesn't have any such limit. The partitions need to be setup
> > in HDtoolbox, and because it is an ide drive, I need to setup all the
> > geometry by hand. There is a formula for setting this up, I just don't
> > know it. Can anyone help me out with this?
>
> You can partition in Linux with amiga-fdisk also and write down the track
> numbers if you want to enter them in hdtoolbox. Did not help me much, as the
> Amiga partitions are not visible on the Amiga3000 and 4000 I tried, this
> only seems to work on Amiga2000.
>
> This is a 250GB IDE disk on an acard adapter with a 256MB and a ~1000MB
> Amiga partition, a couple of 4GB Linux partitions as well as two larger ones
> plus 2GB swap:
>
> root@crest:~>/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda
> Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 31 sectors, 246167 cylinders, RDB: 0
> Logical Cylinders from 2 to 246166, 1015808 bytes/Cylinder
>
> Device Boot Mount Begin End Size Pri BBlks System
> /dev/sda1 * * 2 256 252960 0 0 Amiga FFS
> /dev/sda2 * 257 1056 793600 0 0 Amiga FFS
> /dev/sda3 * 1057 5284 4194176 0 0 Linux native
> /dev/sda4 * 5285 9512 4194176 0 0 Linux native
> /dev/sda5 * 9513 13740 4194176 0 0 Linux native
> /dev/sda6 * 13741 67649 53477728 0 0 Linux native
> /dev/sda7 * 67650 244053 174992768 0 0 Linux native
> /dev/sda8 * 244054 246166 2096096 0 0 Linux swap
>
> Christian
>
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