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- From: cs2lk@scms.rgu.ac.uk (Lee Kindness)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 HD won't boot on cold boot, only warm boot
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 10:18:41 GMT
- Organization: The Robert Gordon University, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Aberdeen, Scotland
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- Paul Hadrill (paul_hadrill@hp-unitedkingdom-om1.om.hp.com) wrote:
- : In article <4dbt5u$h48@blues.axionet.com>, asbacher@axionet.com says...
- : >
- : >The system I'm running has 4 Amiga 1200's in it and two of these four
- : >systems have No keyboard NO floppy and use a PC Power Supply and only
- : >have a HD for booting and they DON'T boot on POWERUP with the standard
- : >Seagate Drive, ST9100. You must do a soft reboot to get the HD
- : >to load WB. THIS REALLY SUCKS.
- : >
- : >How can I make the Amiga 1200 actually WAIT for a HD response or put in a
- : >very long wait perdiod rather than going too quickly to see if the HD is
- : >there and if not NO HD AVAILABLE.
- : >
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- : I also have this problem with a TOSHIBA 2.5 drive (don't know the model?).
- : This is becoming very anoying and I was once told that there was a jumper on
- : the 1200 motherboard but I could never find it.
-
- : Anybody know where the jumper is?
-
- For a software solution try util/boot/SlowBoot.lha on Aminet.
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