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From: taak9@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help with the Data Flyer HD Controller!!!!!!!
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Date: 12 May 91 04:18:41 GMT
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In article <1991May10.130931.47767@cc.usu.edu>, slmt9@cc.usu.edu writes:
>	Hello, i need some help from the hard ware people out there in netland.
>I just bought a Data Flyer 500 from Expansion Systems. Anyway the thing works
>about normal when run from my A500 useing 1.3. But it dies under n A500 with
>1.2 roms. It not only just doesn't work it guru's the machine on boot up. I

  Chances are, you haven't informed the hard drive that you're using it
on an Amiga with Kickstart 1.2.  If the harddrive thinks you got 1.3 ROMs
it's going to try to autoboot, which can't be done under 1.2.

  Check your documentation.  You probably just need to set a jumper.

>	Thanks in advance,
>	Joshua
>	SLMT9@cc.usu.edu
>
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