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So,...You have just purchased a new Hard drive and do not know how to set it up .
All drives Purchased from Unitech Electronics come with the fully stated and implied manufacturers warranty, plus a Unitech Electronics warranty certificate of stating that they are in fact "New goods" from the supplier/manufacturer, your guarantee of total quality and each drive setup by us comes with its own a full Drive parameters sheet

In the case of all IDE Drives, we pre-format them to AMIGA specifications with a realistic sized Boot partition, all part of the service, you expect from the Unitech Team !

OK....back to setting up...There is some vital information that we do suggest that you read FIRST . To find out what your drive's parameters are, simply "click on" the DH0 drawer, locate tools and "click on" that drawer, find the HDToolbox icon and simply click into HDtoolbox, select the "Change Drive type" gadget, then click on the " Define new..." gadget and you will get the screen as below , click on the "read configuration" gadget , this will display the parameters of the hard drive for you, then you can enter in the Manufacturers NAME in this line if you wish ( in this example, it is a SEAGATE 1.27 GB ), after this click on O.K. and OK for the next screen too,ALWAYS remember to " SAVE THE CHANGES !"

The OS 3.9 example above is for a Seagate 17 GigaByte IDE hard drive. Actual size after set up partitioning is 16Gb 1 GB is used for "house-keeping" of files and directories as well as the RDB (rigid disk block).
This drive shown here is partitioned as 29 partitions, mostly 650MB which fits nicely on a CD for backup purposes, you may wish to work out your own sizes.
It is said that a partition looses 25K of ram to operate within AmigaDos. The "boot" partition is called DH0, "D" as in Drive , "H" as in Hard , "0" is for the first real number and as it is the first partition,counting starts at "0". In some educational establishments, it is taught to count 1 to 10, leaving out on "0" which is in fact a numerical real mathematical number, just ask any scientist or mathematician.

The OS 3.9 example above is for a Seagate 17 GigaByte IDE hard drive. It is partitioned under OS 3.9 in only 29 partitions, you may wish to work out your own sizes. It is said that a partition looses 25K of ram to operate within AmigaDos. The "boot" partition is called DH0, "D" as in Drive , "H" as in Hard , "0" is for the first real number and as it is the first partition,counting starts at "0". As mentioned above, in some educational establishments. it is taught to count 1 to 10, leaving out on "0" which is in fact a numerical real mathematical number, just ask any scientist or mathematician.