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- From: para@Walden.mo.net (Beakman's Secret Identity)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: A1200 Hard Drive Problems...
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 08:18:20 GMT
- Organization: Deranged Social Workers
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- 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
- para@mo.net
- http://mo.net/para
-
-