rld@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Robert Doran) (03/31/89)
Greetings,
I am trying to set up a harddrive system for my Amiga 500, and I
am having some problems.
My hardware setup is as follows:
A500 with A501 memory expansion(total 1 Meg)
1 external floppy
Pacific Peripherals SubSystem 500
A2090 controller
Lapine LT2000 Harddisk in external case with power supply:
ST506, 20 Meg, 65 Msec
4 surfaces, 17 Bl/track, 615 cyl
While trying to get the system up, I am using the Workbench 1.3
disk right out of the box (a backup, that is!). The version of
Prep on the 2090 software is 33.16.
When I power up the system (first subsystem, second harddisk, then
Amiga) the disk starts spinning and the heads start stepping until
the amiga prompts for the WB disk; at that time the harddisk stops
spinning. It seems that when the amiga tries to communicate with
the disk, the LED on the harddisk flashes.
Unfortunately, I don't have and technical info on the Lapine (I'm
going to see what I can get tomorrow).
Is anyone using a Lapine disk with a 2090? Does anybody have any
idea what could be wrong?
When and if I get this problem taken care of, how well will this
setup work? A local dealer told me (AFTER I bought everything!)
that the A500 doesn't work well with DMA controllers. Is this true?
Any help will be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks in advance
-Bob Doranrld@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Robert Doran) (04/01/89)
In article <1219@Portia.Stanford.EDU> rld@portia.Stanford.EDU (Robert Doran) writes: > >I am trying to set up a harddrive system for my Amiga 500, and I >am having some problems. > It seems that my distress call to netland was a little premature. It turns out that my harddisk was defective! Oh well, sorry for the waste of bandwidth. > >Pacific Peripherals SubSystem 500 >A2090 controller >Lapine LT2000 Harddisk in external case with power supply: > >When and if I get this problem taken care of, how well will this >setup work? A local dealer told me (AFTER I bought everything!) >that the A500 doesn't work well with DMA controllers. Is this true? > Well, to answer my own question, everything is working well! The Lapine is a nice, quiet drive, especially for the price ($129). The A2090-A500 combination seems to work fine. I haven't had any trouble so far, but I guess only time will tell....... -Bob Doran