| From: | Alan W. Rateliff, II |
| Date: | 1 May 2000 at 19:29:06 |
| Subject: | Re: Fujitsu 20G IDE_HDD |
On 30-Apr-00, Robert Bondy said something totally profound about [amigaOS3_5] Re: Fujitsu 20G IDE_HDD that made me ponder...
RB> I, too, had a problem with the recognition of a drive after my system went
RB> down and I had to reinstall the OS. It seems that HDToolbox in 3.5 is
RB> buggy and won't recognise uninitialised or unformatted drives.
3.5 has recognized ALL unitialized/unformatted drives I have installed in the
system. The biggest problem I had with 3.5 goes back to my earlier post
concerning the corrupt filesystem on my boot partition. I have had no other
problem with 3.5 and uninit'd drives on my A500, A1000, and A4000.
RB> My solution: boot with my original OS3.0 floppy and use HDToolbox 3.0
RB> found on that. It recognises the drive and you can install the BootBlock
RB> etc. Then you can go back to OS3.5 and use use it's toolbox to continue.
A lot of work, but i had to go through a similar procedure to correct the bad
fs but instead of booting to a 3.0 floppy, I used the 3.5 emergency disk.
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