Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!dbngmd13!dmswwu1c!zur072 From: ZUR072@DMSWWU1C.BITNET (Ulrich Kuehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: booting from hard disk Message-ID: <91066.115758ZUR072@DMSWWU1C.BITNET> Date: 7 Mar 91 12:35:33 GMT References: <1991Mar06.205849.23089@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Distribution: na Lines: 5 Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany The problems with booting from harddisk after power-on have their origin in SCSI (i suppose, youre using a SCSI-HD): some newer drives want to get a reset-signal after power-up, so when you turn on your Atari, it cant read the HDs rootsector, but after a reset it does well. Ive got that problem, too, with my ST157N, but I can stand it.