Hard drive boot problem

[Allan Margolies]

After much difficulty getting Amiga OS 3.1 ROM's to work on my rev 8.9
motherboard I finally got it working. Now I am having some odd boot
problems with my Quantum 210 meg. HD. I hope someone might have some
ideas.

I used setbatt to make sure all my parameters are correct. With
Timeout = Short the drive will not boot from a cold restart. Holding
down both mouse buttons the setup screen shows only DF0 and DF1. If I
then cancel the setup screen and hit the boot button the drive will
then boot the system. Or I can boot off of a floppy and then do a
warm reboot and everything works well.

With Timeout = Long after power on there is a 9 -11 second wait and
the booting proceeds normally off of the HD. If I hold down the
mouse buttons in this scenario all drives are shown in the boot screen
setup.

I guess I can live with this slow boot but would like to know why it's
happening. Never had a problem with spin up speed or anything with
the drive. I doubt in fact it has anything to do with spin up speed
for example if TIMEOUT=Short and I do a cold boot I get some immediate
HD access followed by the INSERT DISK screen. I can press Ctrl-A-A
forever and I still keep getting the INSERT DISK screen.

Some other things, I have a SCSI tape drive external but it makes no
difference if it is connected or not.

Any ideas appreciated....

Allan

[Lee Kindness]

Allan Margolies (pla...@vnet.net) wrote:
: After much difficulty getting Amiga OS 3.1 ROM's to work on my rev 8.9

: Any ideas appreciated....

: Allan

Give util/boot/SlowBoot.lha a look

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