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From: scott@stsci.EDU (Jim Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Help! Hard disk(?) problems!
Keywords: A3000,hard disk,help!
Message-ID: <1924@nemesis.stsci.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 90 19:18:29 GMT
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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HELP!  I had a really horrible experience this morning.

When I turned on my A3000 it asked whether I wanted to boot
from 1.3 or 2.0.  It normally only does this when you cold
boot and hold down both mouse keys.

Well I thought, maybe it was just some quirk.  So I clicked
for 2.0 from the harddrive.  NOTHING.  I clicked for 1.3 from
the harddrive.  ZILCH.

So I pulled out by 2.0 kickstart and WB backups and booted from floppy.

When it finished....no sign of my hard disk!  No Icon.  No nothing.
YIKES!

So I cold booted again.  Same thing.
SO I prayed to the patron saint of hard drives, and tried a third time.
Completely normal.  It booted from the hard disk into 2.0  The harddisk
is there.  Files seem okay....

What the hell happened?  Is my harddisk about to crash after two 
months of use?

On a (maybe?  hmmmm...) related note...I once heard that when you
boot, a RAM test is performed and the colours etc. of the screen
could indicate problems.  Well, just after I bought and installed
4 Meg of 1Mx4 for my FAST last month a broad dark line would appear
when I boot.  It sits there, then scrolls up, then jitters around and vanishes
about the time WB appears.  It only really does this when I turn on
the machine after it being off for at least a few hours. If
I cold boot after it's nice and warm the broad black band doesn't appear.
Is this a RAM problem or a monitor (1950) problem.

HELP HELP!

Jim

Scott@stsci.edu