tqhoang@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Toan Hoang) (04/05/91)
I thought all A2000 have one meg of CHIP ram in it. The last I type avail it said I have 512k of CHIP and 512k of fastmem. Do I have to change something to get one meg of CHIP ram? And I also having hard time trying to set up my hard drive to work. When I bought the computer, the hard drive have already been setup and workbench has been installed. But, because it has some read write error (probably due to shipping) I have to reformat. I thought you can just use the amiga FORMAT command and FORMAT drive DH0: . But, after I finish formatting. The request menu said the harddrive is not A DOS DISK. I load the workbench, and the Icon shows DH0:BOOTS as a name of the harddrive. How can I get the harddrive to work? Any help would be appreciated. Toan
johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee) (04/06/91)
In article <1991Apr5.152201.13407@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Toan Hoang <tqhoang@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> writes: >I thought all A2000 have one meg of CHIP ram in it. The last I type avail >it said I have 512k of CHIP and 512k of fastmem. Do I have to change something >to get one meg of CHIP ram? And I also having hard time trying to set up my >hard drive to work. When I bought the computer, the hard drive have already >been setup and workbench has been installed. But, because it has some read >write error (probably due to shipping) I have to reformat. I thought you >can just use the amiga FORMAT command and FORMAT drive DH0: . >But, after I finish formatting. The request menu said the harddrive is not >A DOS DISK. I load the workbench, and the Icon shows DH0:BOOTS as a name >of the harddrive. > >How can I get the harddrive to work? Any help would be appreciated. > >Toan Not all A2000's. My Rev 4.2 A2000 had only the Fat Agnus until I upgraded it a year ago. You need an ECS Agnus (verify you don't have one on your motherboard already) and to change a jumper on the motherboard. As for your hard disk, it sounds like you have an auto-booting HD with its RigidDiskBlock filesystem set to FastFileSystem. You need to reformat with: FORMAT drive DH0: name "NewName" FFS QUICK Note the FFS keyword. You didn't say if your drive was SCSI or not, or what kind of controller you have, but I think a FastFileSystem SCSI partition only requires a QUICK format (much, much faster than a full format.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DiskDoctor threatens the crew! Next time on AmigaDos: The Next Generation. John Lee Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu The above opinions of those of the user, and not of this machine.