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From: cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: AMAX + IDE hard drive
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.012625.7148@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 24 Apr 91 01:26:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.212736.20648@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
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In article <1991Apr23.212736.20648@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>
>  When I boot up AMAX II, my system fre4ezes (it just shows the question
>mark and the disk, nothing blinking). I have an IDE drive, and have tried
>to put the data file for it in numerous directories, but it hasn't worked
>yet. Last of all, I do not have a df0:. I only have df1:.
>
>    David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN  Tomas Arce 
>           Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :)

Sorry to tell you this, but the A-Max won't boot up unless DF0: is
present regardless of whether or not you have a bootable a-max partition
on the hard drive.

Try making df1: df0:. An amigaDOS assign won't help ie. assign df1:
df0:, when a-max resets it forgets the amiga stuff. You'll have to play
around with the hardware, select lines etc..

Pity it isn't like the amiga where the O/S has a timeout of about 10
seconds if it can't find DF0:, then looks at other devices.

matt.