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- From: bamf13@ix.netcom.com(Mark & Michelle Wood)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 problems
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 18:31:04 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4hkll8$m88@cloner4.netcom.com>
- References: <4hk5ae$ab4@cloner4.netcom.com> <Pine.SGI.3.91.960306170201.28724A-100000@storm.stud.unit.no>
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-
- In <Pine.SGI.3.91.960306170201.28724A-100000@storm.stud.unit.no> Tarjei
- Knapstad <tarjeik@stud.unit.no> writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- Ummm, no, actually I had tried that first (disk in before power on).
- The disk I was trying to use is a DOS disk (works on my other Amiga).
- I even tried disks that are A1200 specific. Even the external drive
- does the same thing. I think the fact that it says ???? (non-dos) is a
- hardware related problem. The only time it sort-of read a DOS disk was
- when I went into the early boot options, but it failed half-way thru
- the load. It hasn't worked since, either. But the hd still boots
- okay. Well, thanks, any other ideas? BTW, my A500 doesn't come up
- with an 'insert disk' pic either since I have a hard drive for it. It
- works the same way--if a disk is inserted, the disk boots instead of
- the hard drive. Only this particular A1200 doesn't do that...
-