snolan@sysp2.hq.af.mil (Scott Nolan) (02/14/91)
In his last message to me, Jeffrey W Davis states:
-- The [1020] drives are all sold/shipped/paid for.
RATS!!! I really wanted one.
-- Connected to an A1000. The 1020 is the only external drive. If I attempt
-- to load kickstart without the 1020 turned ON, it has great difficulty
-- reading the kickstart disk. .....
Basically, I have the same problem, unless I have the darn 1020 turned ON
or I unplug it from your machine completely. I find this irritating, it
means that I have to keep reaching behind the 1020 to turn it ON whenever
I reboot my 3000 (ditto on my old 500 and my roommate's 2000) or the rest
of the machine is affected. This is irritating, because I only use the
1020 once in a great while for dumb-DOS transfers. I should not have to
have the 1020 ON all the time...
-- Not having a display without a disk in the drive is odd. I suspect that you
-- are using an A500 though and odd things seem to always pop up. The diskdrive
-- should not be recognized by the system at all (after kickstart 1.1) unless
-- you specifically Mount it. I believe the sole purpose of the circuitry in
-- the back of the 1020 is to prevent the drive from autoconfiguring. You'll
-- need to let me know a little more about this. What type of Amiga? What is
-- it's behavior when booting a stock Workbench disk of 1.2 or higher?
I am using the drive on my 3000, but willing to move it to my roommates
2000 if that would work (it has the same problem). Why should I have to
mount the drive when the power is off? I do have a manual mount command
for both AmigaDOS and for MSDOS (via CrossDos) that I expected to have to
use WHEN THE DRIVE IS TURNED ON, but not when it is OFF. I am so confused.
Thanks for your help though, thanks a bundle. Anyone else got any ideas?
ScottD. (snolan@sysp2.hq.af.mil)