Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsz!dleigh From: dleigh@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Darren Leigh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 2090A problem Summary: some help Message-ID: <2746@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Date: 19 Dec 88 22:47:20 GMT References: Reply-To: dleigh@hplabsz.UUCP (Darren Leigh) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 40 In article bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes: >I just got a 2090A. The system won't boot with it plugged into the >bus (power led blinks, medium-grey screen, disk led connected to J5 is >on steadily). But looking at the addendum (diffs of the 2090A from >the 2090), it said that the autoboot roms will mess up with 1.2 >kickstart roms (which I have). So I removed the two rom chips that >the addendum specifies as the autoboot roms, and tried again. Still >won't boot. Then I remove the disk led wire from J5; now it boots >from floppy. But prep (after waiting about 7 minutes!) just says >"Drive not PREPed" (great error messages here). Thinking that maybe >it was the disk led in the first place, I put the roms back in. >System won't boot. I spent Saturday messing with mine and getting results similar to yours. My setup is a 2000 w/3 Meg, a 2090A, a Quantum Pro 80s SCSI drive and Kickstart and WB 1.3. I kept getting that terse "Drive not PREPed" error and was ready to scream after a while. The problem turned out to be the jumpers on my SCSI drive. Apparently the drive was set up to be SCSI device number 6 instead of number 0. I fixed the jumpers and it preped just fine. My hard drive light (when attached to J5) always stays on too. I have it disconnected now but would like to know how to get it working. Also, does anyone happen to have the right numbers for the Quantum Pro 80s. The place I bought it at gave me the weird numbers: surfaces = 6 cylinders = 5004 sectors/track = 35 (??) they weren't sure I could also use a phone number/address for Quantum. I have my drive set up with the numbers for the 40s so it only has 40 Megs right now. ======== Darren Leigh Internet: dleigh@hplabs.hp.com UUCP: hplabs!dleigh