Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!davids From: davids@cup.portal.com (David Kenneth Schreiber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 and poor quality control. Message-ID: <32472@cup.portal.com> Date: 5 Aug 90 21:15:50 GMT References: <9008011500.AA25318@jade.berkeley.edu> <32458@cup.portal.com> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 33 Rick Schaeffer writes: --- Well, I, too, thought that I had gotten a bum deal with the A3000. But after living with it for a month I'm quite happy. First, to the problem that the author mentioned with installing a second internal hard disk. I had the same problem with spooky random crashes...keyboard lockups... the whole works. I found two problems: number one was that I didn't read the addendum sheet that came with the A3000 ... which said to be sure and set the "Supports Reselection" flag to "NO" on any added hard disks when using HDToolBox to prep the drive. Once I did that (it took several tries to get it right due to the flakey behaviour of the system) then all my REALLY weird problems disappeared. Now I still have a minor problem with the setup and that is that my EXTERNAL hard drive MUST be powered up at the same EXACT time as the A3000. If it is up and ready BEFORE I power up the A3000 then everything appears to boot up just fine but the keyboard doesn't work at all...not even allowing a warm boot. If I leave the power OFF on the external drive at the time I power up the A3000 then the A3000 doesn't recognize ANY of the hard drives and either hangs or gives me the option of booting from floppy only. As I said, this is a minor problem for me since I have a switch box which powers up the whole system at the same time. --- Well, I've tried removing the second internal hard drive altogether (so now I have just the Commodore supplied HD & FD in there), and it still happens. In fact, over the past day, it has gotten worse: now even with the cover off and the other drive removed, I still can't go beyond 15-20 minutes before the display breaks up and the machine begins resetting over and over. Anyone have any other suggestions, or do I exchange the machine? -Dave