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- From: fgrambs@panix.com (Fred Grambs III)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: DataFlyer...HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Date: 10 Feb 1996 00:14:40 -0500
- Organization: SUNY Maritime College
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- C. Taylor Sutherland III (taylors@hubcap.clemson.edu) wrote:
- : I could probably help myself if anyone could find the tech support number
- : for Expansion Systems, the company that puts out the DataFlyer XDS for the
- : A1200. Barring that, this is my problem.
-
- : internal slave is disconnected. To top it off, on cold start, the machine
- : asks for Workbench3.0 with the little Insert-disk anim. With a warm boot,
- : the slave takes over and boots up. But once it boots up, the master
-
- That's because the drive doesn't spin up fast enough. A lot of A1200s
- have that problem with larger drives (including me).
-
- : The thing still refuses to recognize the external at all if I have the
- : internal set to master and the external to slave. Go fig.
- :
-
- : How can I get the external to boot up and the internal to be it's slave,
- : besides just setting the jumpers?
-
- Well, I had the same problem with my XDS. I set up my 2.5 as the master
- (it has a faster access time) and my 3.5 as the slave.
- First, make sure you have a powerful enough Power supply. (I scrounged up
- an old PC Clone PSU and modified it).
-
- The funny thing with my setup is that the 2.5 inch, when hooked up to the
- IDE header internally would not recognize the 2.5 inch drive. But, when i
- used a short IDE cable and attached it to the extra header inside the
- XDS, it worked perfectly.
-
- So, I now have a XDS with a 2.5 inch drive mounted to the top (looks like
- a strange spaceship :)
-
- Hey, whatever works. BTW, I am not responsible for whatever you may do to
- your system.
-
-
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- Fred Grambs NYS EMT-D Meteorology Major
- fgrambs@panix.com Executive Officer, SUNY Maritime College
- N2QHF Maritime College Rescue Squad Bronx, NY
- Member, Lindenwood VAC(Queens, NYC) Amiga1200/50/50/6/1.2 Gigs
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