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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Putting 2 Hard Drives in A-3000 DOESN'T WORK!? HELP!
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.160444.6546@agora.uucp>
Date: 25 Jul 90 16:04:44 GMT
References: <1320@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>
Reply-To: billsey@.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Organization: Betazoid Central
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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.

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:| 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,         |
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     -Bill Seymour             ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey
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