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From: 42adlgx@sacemnet.af.mil (42ADLGX)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: SideCar Hard Disk Drive Problems
Message-ID: <39725@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 90 21:15:28 GMT
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I just bought a used Sidecar from a friend and after much difficulty I was
able to get the hard drive to work.  (LESSON:  Always check your power
supply to make sure it isn't dying BEFORE spending money!)

NOW,  I am trying to use half of the drive for the Amiga (just like the
book says) and this is where my current difficulty lies.  Here goes:

   a.  I ran ADISK, Just like the book says,

   b.  I ran DJMOUNT just like the book says

   c.  I ran the DPFORMAT, again, just like the book 
ays.  Everything
worked, that is, the drive light came on, it counted up to 303 cylinders,
and the name of the drive appeared on the workbench screen.  The disk
window even opens when clicked on.

   d.  NOW for the PROBLEM.  Whenever I try to copy my files from the 3.5
disks to the hard drive it will work (ever so briefly) and then will lock
up.  The few times it hasn't it told me that the files
were not object
modules.

I have tried using the original workbench disk that was created when the
system was first set up in 1988, and the same problem existed.  I have
tried the standard format command (and even FFS) to no avail.

QUESTIONS:

   1.  Is this in some way related to problems with the Kickstart disk?

   2.  Is there a way to use FFS or the standard FORMAT command with the
Hard Disk on the IBM side?

   3.  Most importantly, can ANYONE help me get the fool thing to WORK???

Steve Brady
42 AD/LGX
Grand Forks AFB, ND 58205

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