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- On 6 Mar 1996, Mark & Michelle Wood wrote:
-
- > I recently got an A1200 (& A500) for $100. The A1200 has MBX1200 card
- > with fpu and 4mb ram. It also has an internal hard drive. It came
- > with a 1942 monitor and lots of disks. It was a good deal but here is
- > the problem--the A1200 boots fine off of the harddrive but will not
- > boot any floppy disk. I get an icon that says ???? for the name. One
- > time, using boot options, I disabled all of the other devices except
- > df0:, switched to original chipset, and cpu cache off. When I told it
- > to boot (no disk in the drive) the floppy drive made a click then I got
- > a message no disk in the drive. I put in a bootable disk, it booted up
- > to a certain point (workbench came up) then it started saying tracks
- > were unreadable (the disk works fine in my original A500 btw). I have
- > tried this again many times but it doesn't work now (the drive still
- > makes a click sound). I have tried an external drive but I get the
- > same results (the external drive works ok with my A500). So do I have
- > a bad chip, or possibly a bad drive? I am currently able to use it in
- > a limited fashion thru the serial port (again the hd works ok) and for
- > $100 it was a good deal (2 Amigas, a monitor, a software). But I would
- > really like to get the A1200 floppies going for the games! If anyone
- > has any ideas I would appreciate it. Thanks!
- >
- >
- I think we might have lost a small point here. If you are going to boot a
- non-dos disk, you must insert the disk into the drive before your miggy
- boots. (it's not like the 500 where you wait for the "insert disk" piccy
- to appear....) The "unreadable tracks" message sounds a bit strange
- though... If you want to use your exeternal drive (there is a possibility
- that your internal drive actually is fucked up) you must select this as
- the boot device under the "Early Startup Squence" (i.e DF1:). The ?????
- in your workbench is caused by you, inserting a non-dos disk.
-
- SO: Reset and insert the disk you want run before your hd starts to boot up.
-
- Cheers,
- Tarjei.
-