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- From: michael rye <1726@topcity.mn.org>
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- Subject: Re: A1200 Hard Drive Problems...
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 14:09:46 GMT
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- para@Walden.mo.net (Beakman's Secret Identity) wrote:
-
- >Thanks to the help of some people here on the net, about three months
- >ago, I tried installing a 210M IBM 2.5" drive into my 1200.
-
- >It didn't work. Later tried the drive in my PC, which didn't work
- >either... (Though I've never had any luck with it...)
-
- >So I sent the drive back, and they sent a replacement in, which is doing
- >the same thing, so I now know it isn't the drive.
-
- >What the drive does is this:
-
- >If I use the Install disk, everything runs correctly. The drive formats,
- >and I can move files around on the drives, run files from them, etc...
-
- >But upon next reboot, whether it is a soft restart, or a hard (power
- >lost) restart, the hard drive vanishes... With no trace.
-
- >Now, the motherboard KNOWS the drive is there, as I can watch the hard
- >drive being "pinged" as it runs through the booting process.
-
- >I thought maybe the drive wasn't set to be bootable, but checking with
- >the HDToolBox, it indeed was (though for some reason HDToolBox only
- >listed options for SCSI and XT drives... Though 1200's use IDE. Go fig.)
-
- >I'd be happy if I just needed a disk to bootstrap Workbench onto the Hard
- >Drive (IE The Amiga equivalent of Mount, or the Mac's SCSIProbe).
-
- >Any help would be greatly appreciated... As the 210M drive is in it, but
- >I can't do anything on it. Ugh...
-
- >And reinstalling Workbench everytime I want to use the Hard Drive is a
- >bit on the crazy side! (Or reformatting the drive for that matter...)
-
- >Anyway, thanks for any help available.
-
- >ParaPsykotic (DSW)
- >Tony Bossaller
- --
- Tony,
- Sounds like you know what you're doing with HDToolBox, so I won't give
- you any lessons on how to use that. What you should also check with HDToolBox
- is the "Automount" flag. Check to make sure that it is turned on. Obviously,
- by the sound of the word, this causes the computer to automatically mount the
- drive on Workbench when you boot the machine. Now I'm not sure if the
- "Bootable" flag is supposed to set this flag also or not, but just make sure
- it's turned on. Later!
-
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