CompuServe Thread

3000 and hard drive

1 messages in this thread
#15025From: Michael DavisOct 7, 1991 5:52 PM
Help!!! I purchased a A-3000/25 with the 50meg quantum disk drive. The system worked great! I replaced the quantum with a maxtor 213 meg drive, low level formated it, ADOS formatted it, and then used the floppy disks to reinstall the system. Now the problem, on initial power up boot, I get the screen requesting how I want to boot the system (the same one that I used to get if I held down both mouse buttons) with the hard disk sections ghosted out. If I click the cancle then the system boots up in dos 2.0 from the hard disk. I tried the two programs that adjust the SCSI timeout thinking that the disk was not ready ie. Initialized after powerup. These had no effect on my problem but they do affect the system speed after the dos is loaded. It may be somewhere in the manuals but I have not found it yet. Is there a way of telling AMY to increase the wait before accessing the disk drive the first time? Would increasing my memory (now 2 megs) help? (Making POST last longer) Any help|ideas? Michael Davis // \X/ AMIGA POWER