--- LordTyran <a2k_at_one.net> wrote:
> Hello, a while ago I got a semi-functioning Amiga 2000HD... after
> tinkering with it for a bit, the accelerator crashed the machine every few
> minutes, the install was screwed, etc. So, After finding the 68k chip bad,
> I pulled one from my dead A500
I can sell you another 68K chip, cheap. I have several.
> ...I now how a functioning system... except the HD with a screwed
> up install. I want to use a 105-meg SCSI drive that I rescued from a Mac
> at school. I have an complete set of install disks for the 2.1 OS but for
> some reason it can't detect my drive when I try to format it. None of the
> hard disk programs detect it. (When I boot from the install disk with the
> old HD installed, it appears as an icon on the Workbench, but when I boot
> with my 105 meg drive installed, no other icons appear.
There is a prep phase before which you will get no icons. Amigas use a thing
called the RDB which contains, among other things, the partition table.
Look for HDToolbox in (I think) the Tools drawer of one of the bootable OS2.1
floppies. You can low-level format the drive, check for bad blocks, add new
blocks by number, test the surface (read only) and write out a partition table.
OS2.1 might insist on a couple of partitions, WB_2.x and WORK. My old A3000
came with some interesting disks for Workbench 2.01 and 2.02; there's some
extra stuff that is helpful for auto-partitioning disks with script files.
You will want at least 15Mb for WB_2.x All it has to hold is the OS itself
(5 880Kb floppies) and anything you add of that sort (drivers, fonts, etc).
All the real stuff should go into WORK.
Good Luck,
-ethan
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Received on Sat Apr 17 1999 - 18:14:39 BST