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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000 hard drive capacity
Message-ID: <21929@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 May 91 03:21:37 GMT
References: <1991May20.102326.27503@NCoast.ORG> <418@netxcom.netx.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
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In article <418@netxcom.netx.com> logan@netxcom.netx.com (Jim Logan) writes:
>I have a MaxStor 340MB.  The only problem is that the A3000's ROMs
>get impatient waiting for the drive to wind up and I have to do a warm
>reboot when it gives me the 2.x floppy/HD and 1.3 floppy/HD menu.
>
>It's a 12ms drive.  That's faster than the Amiga-supplied 100MB and
>200MB drives that come in the 3000UXB and 3000UXD.

	Two things that may help: one, turn on "Seagate" mode with the PD
utility BattMem.  This causes the driver to wait much longer for drives to
become active at boot time.  If that's not enough, you can try turning on
LUN's (though if you do this you may wish to turn off seagate mode, or move
both of the drives down to fairly low addresses, say 0 and 1.  This is 
because LUNs means it checks 8 times as many addresses, and Seagate mode
causes it to wait longer on each one.  Once set up right with HDToolbox,
it will stop searching after it finds the last (highest numbered) drive.)

-- 
Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
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