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From: pesch@pa.reuter.COM (Roland Pesch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: TOS 1.4 vs. old (1988) ICD HD utilities
Summary: Having installed TOS 1.4 in my 1040, I can't access my ICD HD.
Keywords: TOS 1.4, ICD, icdboot.prg, bombs
Message-ID: <384@saxony.pa.reuter.COM>
Date: 4 Sep 90 18:31:41 GMT
Organization: Reuter:file Inc  (A Reuter Company) Palo Alto, CA
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Over the Labor Day week-end, I finally upgraded my trusty old 1040ST to
TOS 1.4 (using the six-chip set).  It's very nice---but only if I boot off
a floppy and forget my hard disk!

My HD is built from an ICD host adapter kit, and has been happily booting off
icdboot.sys (nee .prg) with the old TOS.  ICD, over the phone, claim the
problem must be the program that talks to the clock; I am skeptical, because
the first thing I did when I noticed this was to make myself a floppy with
*nothing* in the "auto" folder *except* icdboot.prg, and teach myself to hold
down the shift and alt (or was it ctl and alt?  I'm away from my machine
and ICD instructions at the moment) at just the right moment when the floppy
access light comes on.

I can tell it's booting off the floppy because the *only* console message
is from icdboot (on the HD, I run  a number of other things, like pinhead and 
foldr400 and copyfix---I mean, I *used* to run---but their startup messages 
do appear when crashing off the HD).

Whether I crash off the HD or off my stripped-down floppy, I get two bombs
---it looks like just when it's trying to give me a desktop (in either case,
I always see all the expected boot-process console messages first).

I have not installed the Rainbow TOS patches, since they're sitting in an ARC
file on my inaccessible hard disk...

Two questions, then:
  (1) Is my problem unique?  (I hate being unique this way).
  (2) Assuming it isn't---what is the known fix? (subquestion: will I have to
reinitialize the hard disk?)

Many thanks!

                /Roland