| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Hi All,
I'm having trouble getting my A500 w/ supradrive controller and Quantum
40-S to autoboot. I also have the A501 memory expansion in my 500.
I have installed the 1.3 ROM myself and that seemed to go well. (ie, I get
the hand and disk picture that says 1.3)
When the Autoboot chip is in the controller, all I get is a grey screen
and no drive access. (neither hard nor floppy disk)
I took the drive into the store where I bought it (memory location in
Wellseley, MA) and they hooked it up to one of their A500's. They told
me that I had zeroed my harddrive. I know that I didn't because I had
used it that morning and there was data on it when I hooked it back up to
my computer. They also told me that it autobooted fine with their A500,
thus the bootchip is OK.
It seems to be a problem with the computer, but I'm not really sure what.
Do I have a screwed up 1.3 ROM? What can I do? Help, please!
Thanks In advance....
Steve Owen
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| 3439.1 | VERIFY Drive->Ctrller cable | DECWET::DAVIS | Mark Davis - 206.865.8749 | Mon Feb 05 1990 20:22 | 9 |
I had the same symptoms (grey screen) when my supra controller
could not sense a drive connected it. Verify your drive to controller
connections. If you remove the autoboot ROM from the supra controller
you should be able to boot from the floppy drive. You can trouble
shoot from there.
hope it helps,
mark
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| 3439.2 | Drive->controller OK | EUCLID::OWEN | Homer Simpson for Governor | Tue Feb 06 1990 10:46 | 8 |
Yea, that's how I'm running now. (no bootchip/booting from floppy) And
everything seems to be OK.
Strange thing is that when the drive/controller is hooked up to another
A500, it thinks my drive has been zeroed.
Steve (who still is confused...)
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| 3439.3 | My symptoms/Reseat ROMS? | DECWET::DAVIS | Mark Davis - 206.865.8749 | Tue Feb 06 1990 16:10 | 20 |
Have you tried (I hate to say it) supra "technical support"? They are
rather useless technically, IMO, but may have a "symptom table" with
recommended actions.
My problem was that my SCSI->ST-506 adapter prevented the Supra from
recognizing the drive connected. The indication on the Amiga was the
light grey screen, and the floppy light blinked once. When I removed
the autoboot rom from the Supra I was able to boot the floppy and
access the drive(even though the adapter had a problem!). When I
received a working scsi adapter everything worked fine.
If you can, connect another Supra interface to your Amiga(a friends,
local computer shop) and observe the symptoms. You should be able to
determine whether the problem is in your Amiga, Supra, or drive.
wish I could be of more help,
mark
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