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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: PrepHD & 2091
Keywords: Prep
Message-ID: <13529@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 30 Jul 90 21:34:22 GMT
References: <27534@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> <27535@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup)
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In article <27535@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>In article <27534@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
...
>>I ran:
>>> prodprep device scsi.device unit 5
>>on my 1.5 meg Quantum (device 5). Now HDTools thinks it is a bootable 40
>>Meg Quantum & things have just gone downhill from there...

>Apparently HDtoolbox gets its info from the drives themselves while
>Drive Definitions uses the saved table. Anyway, I was stuck using HDToolBox,
>since it refused to accept that the 105 Meg was anything but a 40 MEg.

	The problem was that you ran prodprep on it, which is set up to only
handle 40Meg quantums.  It stored that information on the drive.

>Luckily, Drive Definitions allowed me to change the drive type after I had
>read it from the drive. Then I managed to get it repartitioned.

	Yes, that's how you're supposed to handle installing new drives.

>When leaving the partitioning activity, it told me that all info in
>DH0:  would be destroyed. Well... Dh0: is the 40 Meg & Qdh0: is the 105
>Meg, so I aborted. Found no way to assure me that the 40 Meg would be
>destroyed, so I ended up unplugged the SCSI cable to the 40 Meg it
>before exiting partitioning.

	You had prodpreped the other drive, which gave the default partition
name to it.  Selecting a new drive type of course meant any information of
the DH0 partition on the Q105 would be lost (most people name their partitions
different names).  It would not have touched your other drive, it was just
warning you than any information on the Q105 DH0: partition would be lost.

>After a few other such incidents, I managed to get QDH0: up and formatted
>correctly.

	Glad it worked out.  The manual has a section on how to add new drives
that should have been sufficient to get you through this.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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