CompuServe Messages

Pete, What multi-I/O board do you have? Is this the Oak or STB? You might want to check and see if the parallel port is assigned to IRQ 5. It should be assigned to IRQ 7 and the serial ports should be assigned to IRQ 4 and 10 for COM1 and COM2, respectively. You might also double-check to be sure that you have HDRIVE0 set to USER in BBSETUP. Do you get any message during the Janus initialization that your CMOS setup is incorrect? On the PC side if there's any problem you'll get a message that the CMOS settings are not correct and that the boot has failed. That's a clue to incorrect setup for something. When the Amiga boots Binddrivers is normally run early in the boot sequence. Does the hard drive turn on and come up to speed at that point? You should hear the drive turn on shortly after Binddrivers executes. If it doesn't then you might have a bad power connector, although nothing you've reported seems to indicate that's a problem. Again, in your Amiga startup-sequence you want to have the following lines: run Enforcer >nil: quiet Binddrivers run sys:pc/pcreset run sys:pc/pcreset .. <remainder of startup stuff follows> You should insert these lines somewhere early in the startup-sequence. CBM recommends they run before LoadWB. I have mine inserted just before IPrefs runs. I am assuming with the above that the path statements have already been setup and that PCReset is located in sys:pc. If not, then just put in the correct path to whereever you have them. If you haven't been able to run FDISK and FORMAT on the drive, then you want to do the above, reboot the Amiga and see if that works. Doublecheck to be sure you have the correct drive parameters setup in the CMOS settings. I don't know which drive you have, so you might pass that along as well as if you know what parameters to put in. For instance, I have a Maxtor 7120A. It's set up as USER 40 with 936 cylinders, 16 heads, wpc is 0, and landing zone is 0.