wmark@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Williams) (09/09/89)
Help! I'm having problems using my new hard drive setup. Some background: I use an A500 w/1meg RAM, 2 floppies. I recently purchased an Impact A500 SCSI controller, a Rodime hard disk (R03085S, meaning 3.5", 85 Meg unformatted), and 2 megabytes worth of 80ns RAM in 1 megabit chips. I put the memory onto the expansion board that comes with the controller, mounted the hard drive, and used the installation software to create two partitions, one 51 meg and the other 16 meg. The installation software finished its job and told me to reset via CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA, and sure enough, my hard disk autobooted. I powered off my setup (everything is connected to a single power strip), waited a few minutes, and powered it on again. It did not autoboot, instead asking me for a floppy. I again tried to use the installation software to reformat the disk, and I was informed that I did not have the autoboot ROMs installed in the controller... of course, I *do* have them installed, and I didn't receive this message the first time. After the installation software completed the low level SCSI format, I broke out of the installation program, powered down the system, powered it back up, tried the same thing and got the same message. I then powered it down and up *again*, and when I tried to reformat the disk using the installation software I got the message "Unable to find hard drive with SCSI ID = 0". Ack! I didn't touch the drive... and it's still in there, so what's happening? And yet, since the first time I powered up the controller + hard drive, my system shows that I have the extra 2 megs of RAM avaliable. Thanks in advance for your help... Mark Williams wmark@cory@ucbvax@...