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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 Hard Drives
Message-ID: <19961@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 23:24:25 GMT
References: <27230@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar7.161536.16200@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Mar7.191825.26824@javelin.es.com> <1991Mar7.205003.8951@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Mar7.205003.8951@en.ecn.purdue.edu> wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner) writes:
>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

	Actually, it may be a combination of seagate spinup time and seagate
taking the scsi select timout period to the limit (or beyond).  Both problems
should be fixed by the infamous "seagate" setting in BattMem.

>  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!

	Check in HDToolBox that there is a fastfilesystem in the "Add/
Update Filesystems" area (advanced options).  It should look something
like "0x444f5301	202	21992	Fast File System".
(The size and version may be slightly different.  If it says ~12K, then
it's the old 1.3 FFS.  The 2.0 FFS should be on your install disk in the
l: directory.)

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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