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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 Hard Drives
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.161920.3089@javelin.es.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 16:19:20 GMT
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Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner) writes:

>In article <1991Mar7.191825.26824@javelin.es.com> blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com writes:

>  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.

>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")
                                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Now we're getting somewhere. This looks like you've partitioned and
formatted the disk under 2.0, and 1.3 is trying to find the
FastFileSystem in ROM. Of course only 2.0 has the FFS in ROM, and thus
1.3 can't read the disk. The fix here is simple. Go to the advanced
options on the partitioning screen of HDToolbox, and on (I think)
"Change file system", you'll see a "filesystem" box who's contents read
"FastFileSystem". To get it to work with 1.3, insert your "A3000 Install"
disk in df0: and change that entry to "dh0:L/FastFileSystem". Save the
changes, and the FFS partition will now work under 1.3.

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