Falcon HD woes

[+Sauron]

I just tried installing a 6GB IBM HD in my Falcon. When I boot up with AHDI, the drive is recognized as an IBM IDE drive, but I'm unable to fomat or partition the drive with HDX. When I try partitioning, it says that the drive was formatted with an older version of HDX, and formatting eventually comes up saying that the drive cannot be formatted. Any ideas?

[herr professor]

I'm having troubles along this line as well. I think it's because ahdi is too stupid to overlook any kind of old partition data, so I was gonna try moving the laptop to my main pc and fdisk the bejezus outta it, and clear all the parttion data.

 

I had it working with cecile in the sense that I can make the drive have a parttion, and I can write data to the program, but I cant make the drive bootable w/o using the damn floppy. I don't know if the problem is because of the programm or my getting two d's and a f in high school french.

 

 

I was gonna mess with that today, but I thimk Im just gonna see lord of the rings today instead (ironically enough)

 

Merry f'ing xmas

 

EDIT: I am working with a 3.x gb ibm drive as well

[[ProToS]]

AHDI is outdated , try with CBHD

 

http://home.t-online.de/home/Steffen.Engel/CBHD502.TOS

 

english rsc and docs

http://www.cix.co.uk/~derryck/misc/cbhd502e.zip

 

or better buy HDdriver

http://www.seimet.de/hddriver_english.html

[herr professor]

The question that I have never found an answer for is CBHD ide compatible?

[+Sauron]

Well, it appears that the demo version of HDDriver sees the drive just fine, adds the C: partition to the desktop, and sees the full size of the drive in HDDRUTIL.APP. Now to have to shell out $50 for the full version.

[krupkaj]

@herr professor

I remember that we tried cbhd on Falcon's IDE disk and it worked, but there was some troubles. Unfortunately ATM I can't write you what was wrong.

 

@sauron

HDDriver is good piece of software. Go for it.

[Clint Thompson]

Ouch... $50?

 

Er.... I understand it may still be updated and all that jazz but ....

$50?..... ermm.. ok.....

 

I'll say it again for the pain

 

Ouch (Skylar best said!

[[ProToS]]

cbhd is IDE compatible

but for some drives ( like scsi zip drive ) you have to use Bigdos with it

http://rainer-seitel.onlinehome.de/bigdos.html

[+Sauron]

Well I decided to give CBHD a shot. I booted it up with CBHD.PRG in the AUTO folder, then ran the configuration utility and created a partition, which seemed to work. However, whenever I boot up now, I just get three bombs instead of the driver loading. In fact, I can't boot up at all regardless of what floppy I'm using! Help!

[[ProToS]]

hummm

 

try with cecile driver ( french only )

http://centek.free.fr/atari/softs/cecile.zip

but no xhdi with it ( e.g. no etx2 with mint )

[jens]

Or try hushi. Works fine on partitions up to half a gig, on a falcon up to one gig.

[herr professor]

]hummm

 

try with cecile driver ( french only )

http://centek.free.fr/atari/softs/cecile.zip

but no xhdi with it ( e.g. no etx2 with mint )

 

If only someone would write an english tutorial for it... I cant get the drive to selfboot w/o a floppy...

[+Sauron]

I still can't get my Falcon to boot now, it continues to show three bombs just after the memory and device check on boot. No key combination I've tried so far has allowed me to boot either. I won't be able to try another driver until I can get my Falcon to boot.

[[ProToS]]

 

press "alt" key to boot without hard drive, maintain it until the desktop arrived

( don't put any floopy on drive A )

[+Sauron]

]  

 

press "alt" key to boot without hard drive, maintain it until the desktop arrived

( don't put any floopy on drive A )

 

Nope, still won't boot, still shows three bombs after memory/device check.

[[ProToS]]

have you try to remove the hard drive ? and boot without

[+Sauron]

That's my next step, but i'm not in any hurry to take the Falcon apart again. Why oh why did Atari have to put it in a 1040ST case?

[Clint Thompson]

That's my next step, but i'm not in any hurry to take the Falcon apart again. Why oh why did Atari have to put it in a 1040ST case?  

 

Haha... I actually don't mind the Falcon case...

however opening it is another story... ah, its more time you get to spend

with it haha j/k man

[Methanoid]

This thread is also on comp.sys.atari.tech IIRC and I had the same prob but managed to fix.

 

CBHD caused the Boot problem

and AHDI fixed it.

[+Sauron]

This thread is also on comp.sys.atari.tech IIRC and I had the same prob but managed to fix.

 

CBHD caused the Boot problem    

and AHDI fixed it.  

 

I'd love to try AHDI just to see if it would fix it. Do you remember what steps you took to get AHDI to boot?

[Methanoid]

Ctrl and Alternate at boot held down until it said Abort and didnt load from HD. THEN insert FD with AHDI on and install.

 

AHDI barfed once with some crappy error message. No reboot, just ran it again and it worked a dream. Install driver. Then reboot and machine loads Desktop etc from HD.

 

Bingo....

 

Well it was for me at least

[+Sauron]

Now were you seeing bombs on the splash screen right after the memory/device check? That's what I get every time I try to boot, even with holding down Ctrl + Alt.

[+Sauron]

Nevermind that last post, I got it working now! Just for future reference, what I was previously doing was holding down Ctrl + Alt and then powering on the computer. Waiting to hold them down until just after powering on the Falcon allowed me to abort booting from the HD. Thanks for your help guys!

[[ProToS]]

AFAIK scsitools was unsupported now, you could find it here ( earlier version than the other on the Paskud site )

scsitools 6.52 hushi 6.53 ( german version )

http://www.iquebec.com/arcadiarebelz/scsitools652.zip