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- From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Need help getting A2090 controller working with Miniscribe 8425S!!!
- Message-ID: <0XfEr*8Y0@caleb.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 05:56:48 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.012016.17850@lonex.rl.af.mil> <AQDCr*DW0@caleb.UUCP> <1992Sep6.181827.1@vaxr.llnl.gov>
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- In article <1992Sep6.181827.1@vaxr.llnl.gov>, yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov writes:
-
- > In article <AQDCr*DW0@caleb.UUCP>, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
- > > In article <1992Sep2.012016.17850@lonex.rl.af.mil>, Michael A. Kopack writes:
- > >
- > >>
- > >> Please help me before I murder this A2000!!
- > >>
- > >> I just got this A2090 card to control an old hard drive I picked up a while
- > >> back. It's a MiniScribe 8425S 20 Megger. When I got the A2090, it didn't
- > >> have any install disk...
- >
- > [stuff deleted]
- >
- > >> ...What the frick am I doing wrong????
- > >
- > > I never tried "install." I just put hddisk and hddisk.info in the Expansion
- > > drawer, set up the MountList, and rebooted. Then I ran prep. Remember that
- > > the RES number is 1 (one) less than the "unit" in the MountList.
- >
- > Install simply puts hddisk#? into the Expansion drawer, Prep into the C
- > directory, and the Mountlist in the Devs directory.
- >
- > The 1st partition of the 1st SCSI device must be called DH2:. You don't need a
- > mountlist entry for this first partition. Anything after that you do, however.
- > All of the info for DH2: is loaded when you run prep DH2:. Reboot the machine,
- > and format your drive as normal.
-
- NO, NO, NO. You don't prep DH2:. You prep RES2:. Then you reboot and format
- DH2:. Make sure that you have the appropriate entries in the MountList.
-
- Note:
- these numbers are for a SCSI drive set to ID=0. If you have the jumpers
- set to use a different SCSI ID, then use the appropriate corresponding names.
-
-
- Jim Pritchett
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