djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) (07/21/90)
I recently decided to put the 30MB Seagate SCSI drive I was using in my A-1000 inside my A-3000 for a whopping 70MB total. The internal 40MB Quantum is reported by the HD Toolbox as residing at SCSI address 0, and the Seagate at SCSI address 6. The HD Toolbox was not successful at low-level formatting the Seagate; it would lock up. That's OK, it was already prepped anyway, I just wanted to be complete. I successfully used Change Drive Type to read the manufacturer's information off the disk, and created a new Drive Type. Using this information, I partitioned the drive (1 big partition) and saved all changes to disk. <REBOOT> NOW I have a working SDH1:, recognized by AmigaDOS. Next, I formatted it like so: "FORMAT DRIVE SDH1: NAME Seagate FFS" and all is OK. The drive works fine! I reboot all day and it works. THE PROBLEM WHEN THE POWER IS TURNED OFF! When the A-3000 is again brought to life, AmigaDOS no longer sees SDH1:; the device simply isn't present, visible, or recognized in any way. If I go back into the HD Toolbox and run Change Drive Type <losing all the drive's info after the reboot> my Seagate is recognized again until the next power-down. What Gives? --- THE SOFTWARE KICKER --- After giving up on HDToolbox to solve my problems, I thought I'd try the A-3000 Install Disks' Format & Prep utilities. I hoped that the utilities would give me a chance to BACK OUT of the program if, for example, they would only recognize the Quantum but not the Seagate. The low-level Prep utility displayed some message as : "Preparing to low-level format SCSI device *6*...", which was my Seagate. But when it FINISHED, it said : "low-level format of Quantum drive, SCSI addr *0* complete! What a mistake; it formatted a -Different- hard drive than it said it was going to, so I didn't even have a chance to reboot the machine before disaster struck. Way to go! The user should always be given a chance to back out before critical information gets destroyed. Similar things apply to the Install disk's HDFormat tool as well. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dallas J. Hodgson | "This here's the wattle, | | Metaphor Computer Systems | It's the emblem of our land. | | Mountain View, Ca. | You can put it in a bottle, | | USENET : djh@metaphor.com | You can hold it in your hand." | +============================================================================+ | "The views I express are my own, and not necessarily those of my employer" | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) (07/25/90)
In article <1320@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> djh@metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) writes:
:I recently decided to put the 30MB Seagate SCSI drive I was using in my
:A-1000 inside my A-3000 for a whopping 70MB total. The internal 40MB
:Quantum is reported by the HD Toolbox as residing at SCSI address 0, and
:the Seagate at SCSI address 6.
:
: [More stuff deleted]
:
:THE PROBLEM WHEN THE POWER IS TURNED OFF! When the A-3000 is again brought
:to life, AmigaDOS no longer sees SDH1:; the device simply isn't present,
:visible, or recognized in any way. If I go back into the HD Toolbox and
:run Change Drive Type <losing all the drive's info after the reboot: my
:Seagate is recognized again until the next power-down. What Gives?
What's happening here is the Seagate is taking a bit too long to
come up to speed for your system. At the time the 3000 is mounting the
partitions, the Seagate is still loading it's OS and isn't quite ready
to be sociable... A warm boot at this point should allow the system to
see both drives.
:+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
:| Dallas J. Hodgson | "This here's the wattle, |
:| Metaphor Computer Systems | It's the emblem of our land. |
:| Mountain View, Ca. | You can put it in a bottle, |
:| USENET : djh@metaphor.com | You can hold it in your hand." |
:+============================================================================+
:| "The views I express are my own, and not necessarily those of my employer" |
:+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-Bill Seymour ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey
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