On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:59:31AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:23:15PM +0100, Kolbj?rn Barmen wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > Ok, I give up, the Amiga 3000 and 4000 do not like the disk in AmigaOS, they > > are simply invisible. hdsetup did something to the disk, created two (large) > > partitions on it, but after a reboot, they disappeared again. I connected > > the disk to my Amiga2000 and could install AmigaOS from it with no problems, > > the Amiga even boots from it (the other disks in the A2k have vanished, but > > that is another problem that came from playing too much with hdtoolbox, I > > hope that can be solved, too). When I reconnect the disk to the A3k, it > > simply does not show up in AmigaOS, very strange. > > On A4000 (and presumably A3000, too), HdToolBox stores information about > the presence of disks in NVRAM, which is used later by AmigaOS when > booting (at least that's what they told me when I had a similar problem > with disappearing disks years ago...). > > Can you try an explicit rescan in HdToolBox or so?
hdtoolbox sees the disk, but how would I store the information in nvram from hdtoolbox? When it says disk changed, I save the changes to the disk, but that does not help. Maybe I need another version of hdtoolbox? > Does Linux see the disk? Linux works beautifully on the disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>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 1 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 31 sectors, 246167 cylinders, RDB: 0 Logical Cylinders from 2 to 246166, 512 bytes/Cylinder Device Boot Mount Begin End Size Pri BBlks System /dev/sdb1 * * 2 256 252960 0 0 Amiga FFS Int. /dev/sdb2 * 257 1056 793600 0 0 Amiga FFS Int. /dev/sdb3 * 1057 5284 4194176 0 0 Linux native /dev/sdb4 * 5285 9512 4194176 0 0 Linux native /dev/sdb5 * 9513 13740 4194176 0 0 Linux native /dev/sdb6 * 13741 67649 53477728 0 0 Linux native /dev/sdb7 * 67650 244053 174992768 0 0 Linux native /dev/sdb8 * 244054 246166 2096096 0 0 Linux swap Identical disks, (nearly?) identical partitions, work beautifully in my A2k and in Linux also on A3k and A4k. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
