home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!news
- From: PAULETTI@biel.be.tech.ascom.ch (Pauletti Andreas)
- Subject: Re: Need help with odd hard drive problem...
- In-Reply-To: kendall@flammulated.rice.edu's message of Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11: 19:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.115759.6407@hasler.ascom.ch>
- Sender: news@hasler.ascom.ch
- Organization: Ascom Tech Ltd., Corporate Services, Division for Research
- References: <KENDALL.92Jul28051950@flammulated.rice.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:57:59 GMT
- X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.11
- Lines: 22
-
-
- In <KENDALL.92Jul28051950@flammulated.rice.edu> kendall@flammulated.rice.edu writes:
-
- > I'm having a strange problem with my HD, and was wondering if anyone out
- > there might know what was wrong:
- >
- > My st simply refuses to detect my HD at all anymore!! When I try to boot
- > from the HD, nothing happens, and occasionally the floppy drive gets messed
- > up after the boot - all disks put into it show up with 0 byes and 0 items.
- >
- > I tried to boot from the Atari HD utility disk, but AHDI says
- > "Unit 0: Identification unavailiavble", and after that HDX rufuses to admit
- > that the drive exists even when I try to format. I've checked the cable,
- > which is OK, and everything's plugged into the right place.
- >
- I had the same problem with my VORTEX hdplus 30. I have a SH205 as 1. and the
- hdplus as 2. HD. When I used HDX version 4 and 5 I got for the VORTEX HD the
- mentioned message at boot time and the VORTEX was not available.
- The solution was to use my old HDX I think it is version 3.
-
- cheers andreas pauletti
-
-