Workbench 1.3 format tool?

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  • Hi,

    this last weekend I destroyed the partitons in the DOM that came with my Buddha. Is there any tool available to format a new hard disk in WB 1.3? WB 3.1 and upwards are working OK with HDToolbox but I can't make a working partition for WB 1.3.


    BTW I want to send the DOM to IComp to reflash as I also have an ACA 1233n I bought second hand that I want to upgrade to IDESpeeder. Can I send all?

  • I'm not aware of a HDToolbox that works under Kick1.3. I know that HDInsttool is listed as OS1.3 compatible - might be worth a try: https://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/hdinst


    However, you should be able to make a working 1.3 partition by choosing OFS or FFS as file system - that should be straight-forward. Even PFS3, which is our go-to-filesystem for large partitions, will work under Kick/WB1.3.


    BTW I want to send the DOM to IComp to reflash as I also have an ACA 1233n I bought second hand that I want to upgrade to IDESpeeder. Can I send all?

    Sure, please send it all in one parcel - please read the hints for sending things back.

  • Did some more test today. First I played a bit with Sysinfo and found that with KS1.3 not all card are detected, the last Zorro slots are not working/detected. This A2000 has A2090, Buddha, XSurf100, RAM card and a GBAPII++. Buddha was in the last slot.


    After taking apart the card and reseat them one by one I found that the Xsurf 100 stops KS1.3 from read the next slots from it is seated. Unfortunatelly the XSurf colides with the ISA slots so I can't move it to the last slot. As I received a BigRam 2630 this week I put the Buddha in the place of the RAM card and now I have all the compatible KS1.3 cards working (SCSI+Buddha).


    HDInst worked well but now my prolems are the 'Validation errors' but this can be caused by the combinaton of ide-to-cf-to-sd combinations.


    Anyway I will prepare the package tomorrow because I want to test with your installer.

    Thank you for your fast reply!

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