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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Very interesting problem
Message-ID: <20217@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 31 Mar 91 10:37:53 GMT
References: <1991Mar30.234905.9462@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Mar30.234905.9462@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> rrmorris@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Rodney Raym Morrison) writes:
>
> HELLO COMMODORE!! ARE YOU THERE??

	Yes, though those of us here are doing this on our own time.  (just
a reminder)

> I just bought a A3000. I installed a 100 meg drive. Under 2.0 everything
>works great, BUT, if I try to boot 1.3 from the hard drive, after loading
>workbench, I get a  "NOT A DOS DISK" requestor.

	You need to install (using hdtoolbox) a copy of the 2.0 FFS on the
disk in question.  Make sure it's the 2.0 FFS (20K+), not the 1.3 FFS
(12-13K).  In HDToolbox, go into the partitioning screen, and then Add/Update
Filesystems.  Remember, with auto-mounting partitions it needs to get the FS
off the drive (and the drive you added is probably at a lower address than
the built-in drive, so the FS on the built-in drive hasn't been loaded
when it sees those first partitions).  It will only load one copy of the
FS if you set the version number correctly.  You can use HDToolbox on the
built-in drive to find out what the version of ffs is (look at the add/update
filesystem screen, and use the same number).

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