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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2090 on an A3000 (...again)
Message-ID: <17457@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Jan 91 02:10:26 GMT
References: <19554@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <19554@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (Net Runner Mark V) writes:
>Problem: Still cannot attach second hard-drive to A3000 via A2090 card.
>	5. Stopped startup sequence before commands run
>	6. used 'NoFastMem' to remove fast mem (as someone from Commodore
>	   instructed me to)
>	7. Mounted RES1: as per A2500 manual (see mountlist below)
>	8. Tried mounting DH1: as per A2500 manual but there was system
>	   error (said couldn't find handler, but I didn't use FFS or
>	   handler in mountlist)

	You have to run binddrivers (it's normally in the startup-sequence)
before trying to reference the drive (but after using NoFastmem!)  As you
surmised, you also need hddisk.device in your expansion drawer (and it's
icon!)  It's on the disk that came with the 2090 originally.

>	9. repeated, trying to use 'prod_prep' off of A3000 install disk
>	   to prep first as unit 1, then as unit 2. No dice.

	NAK!  prod_prep is a dangerous tool, you can blow away an entire
drive and it's data fooling with it (and it's not user-friendly).  It doesn't
do any good with 2090's: only 590/2091/3000's.

	You're looking for Prep, which also came on the disk with the 2090.
If the drives are set up already, you shouldn't need to prep them.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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