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- From: wmaddock@icon-stl.net (William F. Maddock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Help: Boot menu corrupt!
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 23:26:50 GMT
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- On 04-Jan-96 05:50:20 HAWK@blanker.ruhr.de Peter Elzner wrote:
-
- >Hi!
-
- >I have a very strange problem:
-
- >Most of the time when I enter the Boot options in the Amiga Boot menu (both
- >mousebuttons at startup), the listview shows garbage.
-
- >I've got two internal HDs and two external SCSI-devices and two floppy
- >drives.
-
- >As I said, this does not happen evry time, just most of the time. The other
- >boot menus work fine (graphics, etc..)
-
- >The strange this is that *if* I enter the boot menu and then try to boot,
- >the system crashes (yellow screen). If I do *not* enter the boot menu, the
- >system boots fine without problems.
-
- >It could be a SCSI-problem because my system only works correct, if every
- >SCSI-device is terminated!!!
-
- >My system looks like this:
-
- > inside | outside
- > |
- >HD1 --- HD2 --- SCSI-Controller ---|--- CD-ROM --- ZIP-Drive
- > |
-
- >I have tried to terminate only HD1 and the ZIP-drive but then I'm getting
- >random read/errors or SCSI-hangs on the devices.
-
- >What I do not know is: Do I have to change the termination of the internal
- >SCSI-Controller? If so, how do I do this?
-
- >Has anyone encountered a similar problem?
-
- >Help!
-
- >My system:
-
- >A3000/030/28 12MB fast 2MB chip
- >Kick3.1 (ROM)
- >CyberVision
-
- >52MB-HD (internal) (Shapeshifter device disk)
- >105HD (internal) (3 AFS-partitions)
- >CD-ROM (external)
- >ZIP-drive (external)
-
- >DD-floppy (internal)
- >HD-floppy (external)
-
- > Peter Elzner [Hawk@blanker.ruhr.de]
- >---------------------< neXus support center >------------------------------
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