80GB IDE disk in an A4000

Assuming I keep the initial partition below 4Gb, is there any reason why an 80GB hard disk will not work on an A4000's internal IDE port with OS 3.9?

I'm not looking forward to slow format times.....

@slcroucher

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It should work perfectly.

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Use quick format. Full format does nothing else but produce hot air.

Bye,
Thomas

@slcroucher

Quote:Yes, bugs in the LBA48 support (required for HDs > 128 GB only, but it's used on all HDs which support it which is very likely the case for a 80 GB drive) of the AmigaOS 3.9 BB2 scsi.device. With some HDs it works, but with some HDs you can't boot at all.
AFAIK LBA48 support was only added in the BoingBag2 version of scsi.device and wasn't in the BoingBag1 and OS 3.9 (without BoingBags) versions yet. If you have a drive which doesn't work with the BB2 version you can use the BB1 version of scsi.device instead.
There are tools on Aminet to extract the individual parts of the "DEVS:AmigaOS ROM Update", and tools which can load resident modules. To use the BB1 version you have to extract it from the BB1 "AmigaOS ROM Update", load it with a tool like loadresident and use 'SetPatch SKIPROMUPDATES "scsi.device" QUIET' in your startup-sequence to disable loading the newer BB2 version.

@slcroucher

If you didn't by the drive yet, you could try to gather data in forums about working and non-working models.
I have WD JB80 one connected to A1200's ide with buffered interface splitter and idefix software.
Without idefix software I can't access the cdrom and partitions over 4GB.

Jack

@all

Thanks everyone.

I don't plan to boot from the drive as my Fastlane is much quicker, but will use it to store backups.