sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (scott sutherland) (06/09/89)
Can anyone help me? I am considering purchasing a 50 Mb Seagate hard drive with a Seagate SCSI controller for my Amiga 2000. First, I am going to pay $650 for the pair from the local Amiga dealer. Is this a good price?? NOW MY MAJOR PROBLEM... I have a 20 Mb Seagate HD which this dealer gave to me on loan to do a project with them. It is also using a Seagate SCSI controller. I am using the Seagate HD utilities disk to boot my system (after I formatted it and installed WB 1.3) since I do not have the 1.3 ROMS and when I use my stock WB 1.3 floppy to boot, the HD is not recognized. My problem is this. I have only a 1Mb A2000, and after booting with the Seagate disk, I am left with only 720K of free RAM. When I use my standard WB 1.3 floppy to boot, I get >900K of free RAM, but the HD is not accessible. What gives?? How do I get the RAM back?? This concerns me because I am getting the 50Mb HD to make longer Turbo Silver animations, and when I have tried to use TS SV with the 20Mb loaner, half the time when I try to enter the object editor, I get a requestor stating "NOT ENOUGH MEMORY TO OPEN EDITOR" or something like that. If I could boot up with the HD recognized and 900K free memory, I wouldn't have this problem. By the way, can anyone point me to a good source on hard drive lingo and the details of using one? What exactly is a mountlist and what goes into one? I have seen listings of them with terms like the number of interleaves, partitions, tracks, etc.. I want to know what these mean and how I use them. Also, is it possible to modify my startup-sequence on my standard WB 1.3 floppy so that it recognizes the HD? If so, how. I am sure that many of these questions have been asked before, but I am really confused. Finally, how does the 50Mb Seagate compare with other HD's out there for Read/Write times and average access and seek times? Which of these are the most important specs to use as a guide for expected everyday use? I am planning to purchase the HD in the next 3-4 days, so any responses would be appreciated. (I knew I'd find something to spend my tax refund on!! :`) Thanks, Scott Sutherland