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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Attaching a HD to a 3000.
Message-ID: <15017@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Oct 90 01:38:50 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.022719.29879@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Oct9.022719.29879@NCoast.ORG> davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:
>
>	I have been having a problem attaching an external hard drive to my
>3000. The drive is mounted in it's own case, with it's own power supply, and
>is fully up to speed when I turn the 3000 on.

	What type?  this sort of message is useless without that sort of info.
Kind of like "my printer doesn't work, what's wrong with it?"

>	No matter what I do I can't get the drive recognized by AmigaDOS.
>The HDToolBox will detect the drive, and even let me low-level format and
>partition the drive, but it won't show up to AmigaDOS at all.
>
>	The drive does NOT support the "verify" option of HDToolBox. Do you
>need to be able to use the "verify" option to have HDToolBox write some
>critical data to the drive? Would creating a mountlist entry work to let
>me format the drive?

	Does Save Changes work?  If you reboot, does hdtoolbox find the 
information when you run it?  A drive not supporting Verify is very close
to being non-SCSI-I compatible, and is certainly not CAM (Common Access
Method, the minimum standard for disk devices) compatible.  Still, that alone
shouldn't stop it from working, but that may be the tip of the iceberg.

	A mountlist may work, no guarantees.

>	Is it also possible that it isn't showing up for the same reason that
>the 1.3 partition doesn't show up when the 2.0 is in use?

	No, not unless you named it WB_2.x: or WB_1.3:.

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