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From: dfrancis@dsoft.UUCP (Dennis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 3rd drive
Keywords: third drive,boot errors
Message-ID: <406@dsoft.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 89 09:00:16 GMT
References: <995@crash.cts.com>
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Reply-To: dfrancis@dsoft.UUCP (Dennis Heffernan)
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pierre@pro-graphics.cts.com writes:

    |When this drive is plugged in and I boot from df0: (I tried many
    |disks and the story was the same) I keep getting requesters like 'You
    |MUST replace <diskname> in drive 0!!!' or 'Unit 1 not a DOS disk' or
    |it grinds a little and I get the Kick screen again. But I never took
    |the darn disk out of the drive, It just seems to be random requester
    |time when this happens.  After  doing the 3 finger salute maybe 10-15
    |times the machine will boot....

	Well, I've a friend with a similar problem on his A500, but he says 
that his caps lock key flashes when this happens.  You might want to look at 
it the next time you boot up- if the light flashes a few times, it's trying to
tell you something is wrong.

	--dfh	...uunet!tronsbox!dsoft!dfrancis
		"Think of something clever, and assume I said it."