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From: wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 Hard Drives
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.161536.16200@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 16:15:36 GMT
References: <27230@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <27230@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@shark.cis.ufl.edu (Anubis) writes:
>
>From what I'm reading, there are quite a few people with amiga 3000's
>having minor problems if they are setting up two harddrives. The most
>common problem seems to be the need to warm boot after a cold boot to
>get the harddrive to mount.  I have the same problem and my second
>scsi drive is a ST157N.  At first I had thought, like others, that it
>was a problem with the thing being so slow, but with all these people
>having problems , I am begining to think otherwise.  
> 
>My harddrives are physically connected properly.  I even switched scsi
>cables to make sure i didn't have a flaky one.  
> 
>This being the case, let me assure the sceptics that it doesn't
>necessarily have to be that the people with the harddrives don't have
>them installed right.
> 
I am having the same problem.  In addition to the initial cold reboot 
needing a warm reboot in order that the 2nd HD be recognized, also any 
warm reboot afterwards will also require a 2nd warm reboot in order that
the 2nd HD be recognized!  This can get to be quite frustrating!
  Now, when I have to do a warm reboot, I just go ahead and hit the 
"three finger vulcan pinch" twice! 
  Once- to start the warm reboot
  Second- when I first see the HD access light during the first reboot

This saves time because I am not going through an entire startup-sequence
twice!  I would still like to have some kind of hw or sw fix for this!
I contacted C=, but they said that they hadn't heard much about this
problem.  So you know where this got me!  Dave! You listening?
PLEASE!  If someone can help me.....DO!
  I even tried putting a reboot in my startup if the HD did not exist!
But everytime it would boot, Amy would ask me for that particular device.

Any ideas?
Thanx in advance!

PS.  I would include all the specs. of my machine, but I think that in 
this particular case, they don't really matter:  Its a 3000 with
two internal 3.5" HD.  And yes I have the termination resistor packs onlyh
on the last HD!  And yes the SCSI id# are different and yes the HD is 
formatted.         

PSS.  One additional problem is that my 1.3 side doesn't recognize the
2nd HD as a DOS disk!  I have tried formatting from 1.3 too.
And yes, the 1.3 side has the same problem of not recognizing the 2nd HD
on every other warm reboot!

-- 
Art Warner
wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu
Amiga makes it happen.... IBM, Mac, and Next make it expensive monochrome!