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From: vrr@cbnewsj.att.com (veenu.r.rashid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 Hard Drives
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.021251.1372@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 02:12:51 GMT
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I just installed a second hard drive in my A3000.  It's a Quantum 105S.
I removed the jumpers from the original Quantum 52 LPS and connected the
second drive with a standard SCSI cable.  HDToolBox worked fine on the
second drive.  The only thing:  after I formatted the second drive for
the first time, and partitioned it, upon booting up Workbench would not
recognize the partitions as DOS partitions.  So I did a

format drive dh0: name Prog: FFS

which worked fine.  Diskspeed results are slow however.  It reports only
400 k/sec while the original 50 meg drive reports 800 k/sec.  Is there
any reason the second drive might be slower?  Should it be reformatted
with different options?


Thanks,
Veenu

vrr@cbnewsj.att.com