gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (Net Runner Mark V) (01/11/91)
Can anyone tell me how to use a 2090 controller with hard-disk in my 3000?! I've got the drive powered up and connected to the card properly, and the card is properly placed in one of the slots. However, no matter how I try, I can't mount format or otherwise install the hard-disk I've just plugged in. The weird thing is that if I boot kickstart and 2.0 of of disk rather than the hard-drive, and then run the HDToolbox utility, it says, as it starts up: "checking xt.drive unit 0" It then says the same thing for xt.drive unit 1. Now, it doesn't do this when the card's not there. After all, without the 2090, the seagate drive won't work, right? So, here's the problem: HDToolbox then runs and refuses to recognize the drive plugged into the 2090. I seem to be able to mount RES0:, but I'm not sure whether it's actually writing to the drive (I don't think it is). Trying to make a partition for the drive on the 2090 just gives a system error. No guru, no crash (under 2.0), and no funny colored blinking screens, the thing just ignores (sort of) the drive. Any ideas... guys at Commodore?! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ James McIninch gt1619a@hydra.gatech.edu Applied Biology (Molecular) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Keywords:
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) (01/11/91)
In article <19474@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (Net Runner Mark V) writes: > > Can anyone tell me how to use a 2090 controller with hard-disk in my >3000?! > > I've got the drive powered up and connected to the card properly, and >the card is properly placed in one of the slots. However, no matter how I try, >I can't mount format or otherwise install the hard-disk I've just plugged in. >The weird thing is that if I boot kickstart and 2.0 of of disk rather than the >hard-drive, and then run the HDToolbox utility, it says, as it starts up: HDToolBox totally ignores 2090's: it doesn't know them from a hole in the head. The trick to using a 2090: nofastmem BEFORE binddrivers, and use a mask in your mountlist restricting dma to 24-bit space, and a bufmemtype that forces buffers into chip mem. You can turn fast mem on again after binddrivers. If it's a 2090A (autoboot roms), you'll have to pull the ROMS. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)