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- From: John McCrea <john@jmccrea.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: How do I remove a second IDE drive from an A4000?
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 96 00:38:32 GMT
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- Thomas Schwoeppe (ths@uni-paderborn.de) wrote:
- > Hi there!
- > What might seem like a pretty odd question is (or was) actually a serious
- > problem for me. Now here's the story.
- >
- >[snip]
- >
- > So my first thought was, throw out that
- > slow and small Conner drive (120 MB, 700 KB/sec on a good day) and just use
- > my new Quantum Fireball 1280. Did that and guess what, that damn computer
- > didn't want to boot anymore, not even from floppy.
- > It seems like it is expecting a second drive on the IDE bus.
- > First I thought, it was a master/slave kind of jumper problem, but that
- > didn't help (the Quantum was master anyway).
- >
- > So does anyone know how to remove that old Conner drive and still be able to
- > boot? Maybe some HDToolBox magic will do the trick.
- >
- > Thanks in advance!
-
- Hi Thomas
-
- I think you may have two problems here. If you had just said that the
- Quantum will not cold-boot, but will boot after a subsequent CTRL/Amiga/Amiga,
- the problem would be that some big IDE drives do not come up to speed quickly
- enough for the Amiga's boot cycle, and the computer just displays the
- Insert Floppy Disk animation. A subsequent warm boot restarts the cycle
- with the hard drive up to speed, and is thus successful. I have this
- problem and have kept my WD170meg HD to boot from, with the 850meg as the
- second drive. I have inserted the following into my startup-sequence
-
- BEGIN QUOTE
-
- ; Allow time for big IDE Drives...
- assign >nil: DH1: exists
- if warn
- DH0:c/reboot
- endif
-
- END QUOTE
-
- (Reboot is a program on Aminet)
-
- However, I am concerned that the machine will not boot from floppy. Two
- things come to mind.
-
- 1. That the priority for your Quantum is set higher than for DF0: in
- the drive's RDB from HDToolbox.
-
- 2. That although the Quantum is jumpered as a master, it is jumpered for a
- master with slave present. This may be different, although it isn't on my
- spare Quantum 420 Prodrive.
-
- Finally, and clutching at straws, my 170meg drive, although the boot
- drive, seems to need to be jumpered as the slave, with the 850 as the
- master (they're both Western Digital) to boot successfully, and in
- addition, they must be on the correct connector on the IDE cable or
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- it does not boot. I do not understand this, as I thought it did not
- matter.
-
- Regards
-
- John
- .
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