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From: pesch@pa.reuter.COM (Roland Pesch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 vs old (1988) ICD HD utilities [thanks!]
Summary: Problem solved; specifics on what version ICD utils go w TOS 1.4
Keywords: TOS 1.4, ICD, icdboot.prg, bombs
Message-ID: <407@saxony.pa.reuter.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 90 23:18:07 GMT
Organization: Reuter:file Inc  (A Reuter Company) Palo Alto, CA
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My thanks to all who responded wrt this problem, most notably "Hardware
Dave" hardware@rose.waterloo.edu, who actually had previous experience of
the problem; Shoou-yu Tang (sytang@skyblue.ACNS.ColoState.Edu), who
thought he did too; and also to those others who simply offered
sympathy and encouragement...  I'm now happily reading from my hard
disk again.

The problem was indeed, as seemed likely, the old icdboot program.

For "the record", here are the specifics ---in case they are of use to
someone planning an upgrade to TOS 1.4:

   --> icdboot.prg version 2.1 CRASHES RELIABLY (even when it is the
*only* startup) under TOS 1.4.  (I went and crashed off floppy one
last time to get that version number, after everything was fixed.  Two
bombs, if anyone counts)

   --> the latest version from ICD's bulletin board (815) 968-2229, as
of a few weeks ago, works fine.  In particular, I am now successfully
using version 4.8.4 with TOS 1.4.

   --> it is NOT necessary to reinitialize the hard disk to switch.

In case it matters, the computer is a 1040 STFM with the following
arcane markings on its motherboard:
       C07053-001 REV. C
       GX-211 V0 1986



                       /Roland

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