Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Now what?  (Hard Disk woes.)
Message-ID: <3402@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 15:52:28 GMT
References: <4269@dandelion.CI.COM>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4269@dandelion.CI.COM> dgg@dandelion.CI.COM (Dave Grubbs) writes:
>I have two problems.  Random GURU messages and Hard Disk installation.

>My first question is: Could this be a memory problem?  If so, how do I
>find out?  How does one attack a problem like this?  (I am real good

Contact Microbotics; I'm not sure, but I believe that they
have a fix for this;  (it way be another unrelated problem
they have a fix for; but you never know)

>I got a Miniscribe 8438 30Meg drive.

>Problem #3:	I ran the "Install" program on the disk.  It crashed my
>		machine, so I tried to reboot it.  Every time it rebooted
>		it crashed.  So I booted off another disk and removed the
>		"hddisk" files from the	Expansion drawer.  The next boot
>		off that disk worked fine.

With no hddisk.device, you aren't accomplishing anything.  The Amiga
can't talk to the hard disk.  I suggest you put them back, and try it
without the memory card in place.

-- 
andy finkel		{ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy 
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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