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- Subject: The HD LED on the front of the A2000.
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- Date: 7 Sep 92 05:55:23 GMT
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- Hello,
- This past weekend I installed a second Hard Drive to my 2090 controller. The
- first HD is an ST506 (I believe I got that right) drive, and my new HD is
- SCSI. Anyway, when I tested out my SCSI drive, I disconnect my old HD first.
- Then the LED on the front of my A2000 lit up all the time, even when I wasn't
- accessing the HD. Then after I tested out the new drive, I hooked-up my old
- drive to the 2090 as well as the new drive. Now my LED only comes on when I'm
- accessing the ST506 drive. It won't come on at all when I'm accessing
- the SCSI drive. My LED is connected to the controller, so I would think that
- it would come on when any of the HD's were being used. When my old drive was
- the only HD hooked-up to my controller, the LED came on when it was supposed to
- and went off when it was supposed to. Also to top everything off,
- now when I reboot, I don't always completely boot-up. Sometimes I just
- get a blank (white or light grayish) screen. If I shut the Amiga down, and
- power it back up, it boots fine.
-
- So my questions are:
-
- A) Why did the LED stay on all the time, when the SCSI drive was the only
- HD connected?
-
- B) Why won't the LED come on at all when I'm accessing the SCSI drive, with
- both types of drives hooked-up. Yet it does come on for the older drive?
-
- C) Why can't I reboot properly?
-
- D) Can I mix different HDs on the 2090, or do they ALL have to be SCSI, or
- do they ALL (2 of them) be ST506?
-
- The LED may be a simple point, but the new drive is real silent and I can't
- tell when it's being accessed. My old drive sounds like an airplane taking
- off, so there's no doubt when it's being used. If worse came to worse, I'd
- rather have the LED work with the new HD and not with the old one. Not the
- other way around.
-
- Also, when I become rich & famous I'd like to buy a better HD controller for my
- A2000. Do most other controllers (like GVP, etc.) allow you to format the
- first partition under FFS? I presume this is just some strange joke from C=
- when they designed the 2090 & 2090A to have their first partition formatted
- under OFS.
-
- Any info would help!
-
- Thanks,
- Joe
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- * Joe Yurick California U.S.A. E-Mail : yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov *
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