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From: jea@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help!  StarDrive woes
Keywords: new stardrive cheap stardrive.device?
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Date: 2 Dec 89 04:16:31 GMT
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Reply to dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu and any other
soul trying to get their stardrive running. 

First, I should say that I recommend the stardrive
as a cheap way to put a drive on a 1000 if you already
have a starboard. My rationale is that for less than
$100 investment you have a drive on your 1000 and save
your $$ until you make the big upgrade to the A3000. Then
you can afford to put more money into the drive, buy a bigger
and/or faster one and use it on your upgraded machine.

Second, I should also say that Microbotics does NOT have a
user friendly disk setup procedure.
We called them about this and they say they do plan an upgrade
soon and also recommended that we leave the first two cylinders
free since the upgraded version may use this space to be
"pseudo" autobooting ie one or two commands to get off the
floppies.

1) Do not use DHMount, use Mount to mount your drive!

2) The software they give you sets you up on a 1.2
operating system boot floppy. Make sure you set up your
boot floppy with 1.3 OS to use FFS.

3) Check your mountlist it should look something like this:

Note that our dh0: is not using FFS for no good reason but it
is small.

dh0:	Device = StarDrive.device
		Unit   = 2
		Flags  = 0x30
		Surfaces  = 6
		BlocksPerTrack = 37
		Reserved = 2
		Interleave = 0
		LowCyl = 2
		HighCyl = 10
		Buffers = 17
		BufMemType = 0
		Mount = 1
		Stacksize = 8000
#
dh1:	Device = StarDrive.device
		Unit = 2
		Flags = 0x30
		Surfaces = 6
		BlocksPerTrack = 37
		Reserved = 2
		Interleave = 0
		LowCyl = 11
		HighCyl = 374
		Buffers = 17
		BufMemType = 0
		Mount = 1
		FileSystem = L:FastFileSystem
		DosType = 0x444F5301
		GlobVec = 1
		Stacksize = 8000
#
dh2:	Device = StarDrive.device
		Unit = 2
		Flags = 0x30
		Surfaces = 6
		BlocksPerTrack = 37
		Reserved = 2
		Interleave = 0
		LowCyl = 375
		HighCyl = 738
		Buffers = 17
		BufMemType = 0
		Mount = 1
		FileSystem = L:FastFileSystem
		DosType = 0x444F5301
		GlobVec = 1
		Stacksize = 8000
#
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