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- From: K.Sherman@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Kevin Sherman)
- Subject: Help with Seagate & A3000
- Message-ID: <19960412.7676188.13D26@fcircus.sat.tx.us>
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- Organization: The Flying Circus Amiga BBX, San Antonio, Texas
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- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 04:09:29 GMT
-
- Boy do I need help!! I was upgrading ny A3000 with a Seagate ST51080N
- 1 Gig Hard Drive. While upgrading my Maxtor 345 meg HD crashed unrecoverably.
- I had not done a comlpeat back up in a while and lost quite a few files.
- Anyhow I did have most of the important files backed up. The system won't
- recognize the Seagate as a valid DOS device on start/boot up. I'm
- hoping that someone will be able to help me.
-
- SYSTEM DESCRIPTION:
-
- Amiga 3000; one low density internal drive; one internal hard drive
- the seagate 1 gig HD; no boards; no roms; nothin' fancy; soft kick 2.04;
- Workbench 2.1. Externally, a Zip drive; a Reno CD-Rom; and a Power XL
- High Density disk drive.
-
- PROBLEM:
-
- I low level formated and partitioned the Seagate in to three
- partitions. The first I named WB_2.x and made bootable. I then restored
- the back up I had made on the Maxtor to the Seagate. On power up the
- Amiga will not load the Kickstart file that is in devs and it gives a
- system requester saying that the hard disk is a non DOS disk. Holding down
- both mouse buttons while rebooting gives me the kickstart menu. After
- loading kickstart from floppy the system gives me the insert bootable
- disk window. After booting from a bootable floppy all the partitions on
- the hard disk are recognized and are valid. Why can't I boot from the hard
- drive? Why won't the system recognize the hard drive as a valid device
- and load the kickstart file? I thought that it was a termination
- problem. The Seagate has a jumper for termination and it is set for
- termination on. Further Seagate has FOUR diffrent ways to power the
- termination, two of which disable the termination on the drive and allow
- for external termination. The main board on the 3000 doesn't appear to
- have any terminators. There are two empty connection spots just behind
- the scsi connection on the main board. Are these where the terminators
- would be? I've tried every combination of the termination power jumpers
- on the Seagate and have not come up with a workable combination. Am I
- looking the wrong area for this problem? Has anyone sucessfully
- connected this type of drive with the same set up? The crash of the
- Maxtor had nothing to do with the A3000. I droped it and that was all
- she wrote (and read). Any help is much appreciated. Help me save my
- 3000 please.
-
-
- Kevin
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- Sherman@fcircus.sat.tx.us
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