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- From: amiken@nando.net (Kenneth Munn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help with Seagate & A3000
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 08:48:28 GMT
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- Hi Chris \"Big Kahuna\" Rampson, you wrote:
- :Kevin Sherman wrote:
- :> 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.
-
- :My A3000 requires an external terminator or the SCSI will not work at
- :all. Yes those empty pins behind the SCSI connector were for
- :termination. I use an external DAT drive with a terminator for this
- :purpose. As for re-loading the software - I would use the original disks
- :and start the process from scratch. See if these 2 things work for you.
-
- Get ScsiPrefs from Aminet and set the timeout to LONG. Seagates are
- notorius for being too slow to spin up.
-
- --
- Ken Munn amiken@parsifal.nando.net
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- "When I married Mr.Ogg, we had three dozen oysters at
- OUR wedding feast. Mind you, they didn't all work."
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