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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 Harddrive Update
Keywords: hell, harddrive
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.150001.23301@javelin.es.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 15:00:01 GMT
References: <27548@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar25.170704.6504@javelin.es.com> <27662@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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cr1@shark.cis.ufl.edu (Anubis) writes:
>In article <1991Mar25.170704.6504@javelin.es.com> blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>>One internal Quantum 170S, terminated. No termination on the
>>motherboard. Three CDC Wren III's in their own cases with power, all

>   No termination on the motherboard...what do you mean by this? I
>know the harddrives have terminators on them...but the motherboard?

The A3000 motherboard has sockets near the internal SCSI cable for
terminators, mine shipped without any terminators installed, but I
mentioned it just to cover all the bases.

>>Only if you had to re-enter all your partition data. If you didn't have
>>to do that, you only changed the config file, not the RigidDiskBlock.

>  Okay, I have to re-enter *All* of my partition data to turn
>reselection off.  Is there another way to do this?  

Not with HDToolbox. If you carefully note all your partition data first,
you should be able to re-enter the data and not have to reformat your
partitions. Of course a full backup would be a good idea just in case.
-- 
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