umsmigie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Smigiel) (09/07/90)
I have an a590 Hard Drive that I purchased used, and came with absolutely no documentation! I then stuck the HD on my ancient A1000. My problem is I cannot get the A1000 to autoboot off of the A590. I'm guessing that one of the dip switches controls this. I'm now in the process of doing the trial and error thing to see if I'm right. But... I'd like to know what the switches do. As well as get as much info about the A590 as possible. Also, it could be possible that the A1000 simply cannot boot off of a A590 HD. Does anyone have some tips/experience they could share with me about the A1000/A590 combo? (I don't think the PAL grounding is too critical right now. The A590 is the only expansion device on the computer.) Thanks For Your Time, Jason
swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) (09/07/90)
In article <1990Sep7.024746.10973@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsmigie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Smigiel) writes: > I have an a590 Hard Drive that I purchased used, and came with >absolutely no documentation! I then stuck the HD on my ancient >A1000. > My problem is I cannot get the A1000 to autoboot off of the A590. Well, this is so obvious I hesitate to post it, but you didn't mention it at all, so we have no way of knowing what your configuration is. Do you have a kickstart eliminator installed on your 1000? If not then you will not be able to autoboot. The Amiga cannot load from the harddrive without the routines that are stored in kickstart. You cannot load kickstart from the harddrive, therefore. Kickstart is stored in rom on the 500, 2000, and 3000. In addition the 2500 and 3000 can (with the right software) allow you to load an alternate kickstart from the harddrive, but these machines use the existing in-ROM kickstart to load the second "replacement" kickstart. -- _. --Steve ._||__ DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own. Warren v\ *| ---------------------------------------------- V {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.COM
umsmigie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Smigiel) (09/10/90)
In article <1990Sep7.024746.10973@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsmigie@ccu.umanitoba.ca > My problem is I cannot get the A1000 to autoboot off of the A590. swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes: >Well, this is so obvious I hesitate to post it, but you didn't mention >it at all, so we have no way of knowing what your configuration is. > >[More info on how to use Kickstart for various Amiga's deleted. Jason] I'm sorry. I should have elaborated more. I Have: A1000 512K Memory (all Chip type, standard A1000 stuff) Kickstart 1.3 (v 34.5) Workbench 1.3 (v 34.20) PAL's are NOT grounded yet. The A1000 goes through Kickstart fine. It then requests a Workbench disk instead of booting off of the A590. After booting the computer from a floppy, "binddrivers" brings the A590 to life. After learning that my DIP switches are set correctly, and their functions, I think the problem lies with the Rigid Disk Block. But I now have a different problem..... (sheesh) After installing 512k of memory in the A590, to bring the computer to a total of 1 Meg, the A1000 will not go through Kickstart properly. It seems to load the image fine, but now instead of prompting for a Workbench disk it just sits on a dark grey screen. I think I've installed the memory properly: I changed the "amnesia" jumper to "512k" And installed the 4 chips in a horizontal fashion (the chips are in the sockets in the correct direction; with the little dimples matching the socket indents) OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO O -- empty sockets 2 megs X -- 256 X 4 memory chips OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO 1 meg OOOOO OOOOO XXXXX XXXXX 512 k XXXXX XXXXX So my guess is it is the infamous PAL grounding problem. Thanks to all the people who responded to my plea for help! (I've tried to get mail back to everyone.) Jason