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From: rps2@conexch.UUCP (Richard Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hardframe Format Problem
Message-ID: <39915@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 89 07:23:55 GMT
References: <2666@nigel.udel.EDU>
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In article <2666@nigel.udel.EDU> MHALL@ducvax.auburn.edu (MARK HALL) writes:
>
>	I am having trouble formatting a hard drive mounted on a
>Microbotics Hardframe.  The drive is a Seagate 157N.  The problem
>is as follows:  every time I try to do a low-level format, or try
>to define partitions, the Microbotics installation software tells
>me that the Hardframe.driver is not in memory, and that I must
>run Binddrivers before I can use the configuration software. 
>When I run Binddrivers, the DF0: drive lamp and the DH0: drive
>lamp come on, and the machine locks up.  

[other things deleted]

There are problems with some rev 6.x motherboards and some DMA devices
out there. As to what the actual problems are, I don't know, but it is
a known condition.


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