Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A2500 harddrive still won't work - even with hddisk.device
Keywords: 2500,busted,harddrive,hddisk.device,spam,mazola
Message-ID: <6569@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 20:40:56 GMT
References: <3918@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3918@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> u572555600ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Frank Kuan) writes:
>
>	Hi, this is the guy with the fried A2500 again.
> Well, I finally got a copy of 'hddisk.device', (all but the info
>file) but the hard drive still will not work when mounted...
>
>I doubt the info file could be the cause of it... Oh yeah, I even used
>the installation disk, and when I ran "prep disk", I got a software

Oddly enough, your problem *is* caused by the hddisk.info file
(or lack of one)

that file is what Binddrivers uses to figure out which driver
goes with which board.  So put one in, and things should be
better.  (add a .info file called hddisk.info, of type TOOL
with the following tooltype

PRODUCT=514/1

(case is important)

and your hddisk should open.

>Is the controller bad? Is Commodore Bad? Or am I just cursed? Well, on
>the bright side, my grades should be signifigantly better now that I
>can't put as much time into programming. 

I think is a curse.  You went right to the correct answer, then
dismissed it.  That has *got* to be a curse of some sort :-)

			andy
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