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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: <1991Mar7.205003.8951@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 20:50:03 GMT
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In article <1991Mar7.191825.26824@javelin.es.com> blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>[Second drive, which just happens to be a Seacrate, is not recognized by
>the A3000 at boot time.]
>
>The problem is most likely Seagate's LONG spinup time. You can work
>around that by getting hold of the program "BattMem" which will let you
>change the A3000 controller's timeout from the standard setting to the
>long "seagate" setting. 

Let me clarify something for a few people: 
  The A3000 2nd HD problem is NOT:
    spinup time
    hardware hookup
 or "operator error" (using wrong commands etc.)

It IS a serious problem and not just limited to a few "dumb" users.
By the amount of e-mail that I got, apparently this concerns many smart users
that have tried MANY different things to make it work.  I did get a small 
number of users that said that they had added an additional Quantum HD with
no problems.  The rest of the mail concerned Conners, Seagates, Miniscribes,
and others.  They had ALL had the EXACT same problem....coincidence????
  I can't speak for the other people having 2nd HD problems, but I am also
having problems making the 1.3 side acknowledge the existence of the 2nd HD.
I have to do the same two warm reboots in order to get them recognized.
Then when they do show up on the workbench, they are not recognized as a
Dos disk!  I went back to 2.0, ran HDtoolbox, and changed one of the partitions
on the 2nd HD to the old filesystem (non FFS).  I then went back to 1.3, and
after 2nd warm reboot, still could not open that partition. ("Not a dos disk")
But, after formating that partition (in 1.3 "noffs") the partition was then
useable and could be opened. (now it is not fastfile!) ie. SLOWER!

Anyone with info, other than "Did you check your monitor cable...duh!),
PLEASE HELP!
  Even if you just have a way of making my startup reboot twice or just
reboot if it doesn't find a partition of the 2nd HD, would be appreciated!


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