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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2091 Performance, and A2090A Problems
Keywords: hard disk B2000 help
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Date: 14 Mar 90 21:13:28 GMT
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In <2420@cpsc6a.att.com>, crs@cpsc6a.att.com (Chris "I'm Outta Here!" Seaman) writes:
>lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>< (Chris "I'm Outta Here!" Seaman) writes:
>< 
>< It will not be able to autoboot, and the ROMs will make no difference at all.
>< What you do need to do is put the hddisk.device into the expansion drawer of
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>< your boot disk along with its icon. You will also need to ensure that
>< icon.library is in the LIBS directory of the boot disk. Don't know what the
>< problem could be in your case though, as you should get to at least the 'Insert
>< WB' hand picture. Try it in a different slot, double-check the seating of the
>< board. The metal plate at the rear of the board can hang up and cause the board
>< not to seat properly.
>
>I removed the Autoboot ROMs from the 2090A, and the machine does boot, but
>I have no copy of hddisk.device to put into the Expansion directory.  I
>suspect it is in the ROMs (since the 2090A worked properly on my 2500),
>but I've looked through every directory of every disk that I received
>when I purchased the 2500, and there is no disk-based copy of
>hddisk.device.  Where am I supposed to get a copy?

hddisk.device comes with the 2090 and 2090A, but in the case of the 2500HD, I
guess they decided to leave it out. You are right in assuming hddisk.device is
on the 2090A ROMs, and it's useless to you in that form unless you also have WB
1.3 that allows autoboot. You can probably get hddisk.device from a dealer if
you explain the situation, and if you or any freinds are on Compuserve, the
latest version of the driver is on the AMigaTech forum in CBM's 'update'
library.

-larry

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