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by barana
Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:12 am
Forum: Platform: AmigaOne 500 and Sam series
Topic: uboot reporting drive read errors on brand new drive
Replies: 16
Views: 21574

Re: uboot reporting drive read errors on brand new drive

I've tried to boot it without anything else attached, cd, catweasel etc. no change and have kept it like that. I dont quite understand you when it comes to returning it to factory specs? It was either formatted with fat, seroed (sed key isnt working here atm) or blank (doubtful due to all the tests ...
by barana
Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:50 am
Forum: Platform: AmigaOne 500 and Sam series
Topic: uboot reporting drive read errors on brand new drive
Replies: 16
Views: 21574

Re: uboot reporting drive read errors on brand new drive

yes slayer the second time around i formatted without a swap partition and no difference. My system partition was around the 5GB mark each time theres no need in my mind for any more... maybe not 'SataII' but 3GB/s (well cache to sata chip - i believe this is where most modern plattered hdd's get th...
by barana
Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:38 am
Forum: Platform: AmigaOne 500 and Sam series
Topic: uboot reporting drive read errors on brand new drive
Replies: 16
Views: 21574

uboot reporting drive read errors on brand new drive

gday, ive installed a 2.5" laptop 7200rpm 750gb sata II drive to my 460lite and it reports a long error message which i will retype verbatim at the end of this. It always occurs whilst loading the kickstart . I have tried to reinstall several times since (with the default 1024 and 512, currentl...
by barana
Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:18 pm
Forum: Platform: AmigaOne 500 and Sam series
Topic: fat crossdos partitio not mounting
Replies: 12
Views: 12827

Re: fat crossdos partitio not mounting

I have tried, but as above, wb sometimes mounts, soemtimes doesnt - hit and miss really, the partition i have set aside for fat32, if it does, it complains it cant mount it due to broken disk geometry - this is with the setting mediatoolbox has injected into the dosdriver- . it doesnt reliably mount...
by barana
Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:20 am
Forum: Platform: AmigaOne 500 and Sam series
Topic: fat crossdos partitio not mounting
Replies: 12
Views: 12827

Re: fat crossdos partitio not mounting

Cant someone at hyperion who knows crossdos help please?
by barana
Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:01 pm
Forum: Platform: AmigaOne 500 and Sam series
Topic: fat crossdos partitio not mounting
Replies: 12
Views: 12827

Re: fat crossdos partitio not mounting

The filesystem employs a special algorithm to automatically chose the FAT12, FAT16, or FAT32 format required to make best use of the disk by maximizing cluster count. Formatting behavior can be modified for special purposes as follows: Its theses lines here i dont understand in the crossdos dox, Do ...
by barana
Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:08 am
Forum: Platform: AmigaOne 500 and Sam series
Topic: fat crossdos partitio not mounting
Replies: 12
Views: 12827

Re: fat crossdos partitio not mounting

a. A fat32 partition _IS_ of use on an amiga hardhrive - as im attempting to setup PC-Task. b.crossdos fat, as the documentation goes, does support separate files for the aos filebits which crossdos 'puts together' for workbench's benefit, invisible to traditional fat-using oses such as msdos,window...
by barana
Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:56 am
Forum: Platform: AmigaOne 500 and Sam series
Topic: fat crossdos partitio not mounting
Replies: 12
Views: 12827

Re: fat crossdos partitio not mounting

I'm actually thinking its a limitation/bug of crosdos/sam40sata.device, unless someone can tell me otherwise, I'm eager to find a resolution -Barana
by barana
Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:21 pm
Forum: Platform: AmigaOne 500 and Sam series
Topic: fat crossdos partitio not mounting
Replies: 12
Views: 12827

Re: fat crossdos partitio not mounting

yes, ill attempt to format it, it will go to 99% format tells me it cant validate it, then i shut down all the requesters and it remounts it as unititialised

note i can format a ffs partition fine....
by barana
Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:15 pm
Forum: Platform: AmigaOne 500 and Sam series
Topic: fat crossdos partitio not mounting
Replies: 12
Views: 12827

Re: fat crossdos partitio not mounting

Update:

well it's mounted uninitialized, but reports when i try to initialize it - (wb reports its size as 16mb, tho the partition is approx 1 gig )that the cluster geometry:

Disk_Warning!
Volume has broken Cluster geometry!
Can't mount it!