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From: cr1@shark.cis.ufl.edu (Anubis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A3000 Harddrive Update
Summary: Someone kill me, I'm in hell...
Keywords: hell, harddrive
Message-ID: <27548@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Date: 21 Mar 91 12:27:37 GMT
Sender: seeger@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU
Organization: University of Florida CIS Department
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Well, yesterday I turned off my Amiga 3000 (This is important, it is
something I very rarely do...) and moved some wires around and tried
to get everything to come back up again.  My second internal harddrive
refused to come up.  (System Info: 1 40 meg internal quantum as boot
drive, 1 ST157N as the second drive, 1 internal floppy).  I took the
A3000 apart, listened to the seagate, and I SWEAR, imagine a little
man inside the harddrive knocking on the case...THAT is EXACTLY what
it sounded like.  
 
No amount of poking, proding, switching drives around, nor all the
kings horses and all the kings men could get this drive back up.
 
Has anyone else had this problem with seagates in general?
 
My next question...I am sure everyone reading this knows about the
'second harddrive wont come up need to do a warmboot' problem to get
the harddrive to come up right.  Could this have been related to my
harddrive finally giving out and *Apparently* not working now?
 
I talked to commdore.  They said it was either my harddrive or my
A2091, but how weird for it to be the A2091 given the set of
circumstances. The dealer tells me it is likely the Seagate.  I sure
hope so, bause I just went and ordered a 50 meg Quauantum drive....
 
Will some kind sole who has successfully installed two hard drives in
their Amiga 3000 please tell me how they did it.  I know how to do it,
but I just want to make real sure I'm getting the same setup as
everyone else that this seems to work for.  (kind sole...hee hee).
 
Final question.  If I go into HDToolbox, and I tell it to turn
reselection OFF on a harddrive, does it really do it?

Fortunately, the Quantum drive that came with the A3000 is working
fine, as always.