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From: nad@tegra.COM (Nancy Durgin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help! Hard disk(?) problems!
Keywords: A3000,hard disk,help!
Message-ID: <1636@joker.tegra.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 90 22:02:54 GMT
References: <1924@nemesis.stsci.edu>
Reply-To: nad@joker.UUCP (Nancy Durgin)
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
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In article <1924@nemesis.stsci.edu> scott@stsci.EDU (Jim Scott) writes:
>
>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.
>
> [ Horror story of powering on 3000 and having it not recognize
>   hard drive ]

I've had this happen to me a few times, too (I have an A3000-25/100).

Basically, if you had looked closely at the boot screen it presented
you, you would have noticed that the "hard disk" selection for both
1.3 and 2.0 was grayed out.  That's why nothing happened when you selected
it.

The first time this happened to me, I panicked, too...  But I just powered
off the machine and powered back on again (leaving a few seconds in between,
of course), and everything was normal the second time.

My assumption is that every once in a while the Quantum doesn't become
ready fast enough for the 3000 (it's a pretty short time out), and so it
doesn't think the drive is there.  This happens to me about 1 time in 10,
and always works fine on the second try.

The fact that it has happened to somebody else makes me feel better...

	Nancy

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