A3000 HardDrive
Tim,
Another alternative (although still not particularly desirable) is to
simply let the system complete its first boot sequence and then do the
Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga dance of fire. Since the Seagate is already spun up, it
should be recognized during this second "warm" boot.
I am in a similar situation with my 2500 with a HardFrame. In my case,
one of my disk drives puts "wierd stuff" on the SCSI bus when it's in the
process of spinning up, and the HF driver doesn't do much error checking
for weird stuff – it believes it and promptly GURU's. By the time my
monitor is bright enough to see the display, I have the old GURU starting
me in the face. A warm boot will then work. It also works when I power on
my hard disk before I power on the system, but I hate throwing more than
one switch :-). I just live with the warm-boot hassle. Of course, I
seldom turn my machine off, so it's not much of an inconvenience.
Hope this helps….
…BobR