On 23/09/2020 14:27, Alan Adams wrote:
> I've tried plugging the ide cable from the motherboard into one of the 3.5
> inch discs. During boot up, I get the ADFS message, and the disc activity
> light comes on, flickers briefly, then goes off. The boot eventually fails
> ansd offers "floppy boot", there's no floppy drive that works, retry,
> which gets to the same pioint, and cancel, which stops at the splash
> screen.
I would recommend taking all other podules out and connecting the drives
one at a time to the motherboard interface to check that they work. Once
you know which drives still working, you can put them back on the
desired interface.
Make sure you set the links on each drive to master when it is the only
drive, and one as master and one as slave when 2 drives are on the
cable. Do not use the CS cable select option, only grief lies here.
Just thought if the master drive of a pair has failed, then the working
slave drive might not be recognised either.
> I suspect this disc is not configured as a boot disc. The other 3.5 inch
> disc now prevents the PSU from starting. It seems to have failed during
> all the plugging and unplugging I've been doing.
To make the disc bootable, you need to issue a
*OPT 4 2
Assuming it is set to the only disc on the motherboard interface.
> I would like to get this to boot again, probable using the 3.5 inch disc
> that does still seem to work. It holds a backup of a lot of what was on
> the failed 2.5 inch disc. Options would be either to connect it to the
> motherboard or the unipod. The latter requires *configure filesystem idefs
> I believe.
*Configure FileSystem ADFS
When using the motherboard.
> How can I get to the supervisor to reconfigure things? I don't have an RPC
> ketyboard now, only USB. The USB keyboard does get a reaction once I'm at
> the "failed boot" screen - pressing escape is equivalent to cancel. F12
> does nothing however.
You either need to press shift when powering up or pressing reset, but
this probably wont work if you have a USB keyboard via a podule. In that
case keep hammering Escape from the moment anything appears on the screen.
You should be able to get out of the failed boot to the desktop by
pressing one of the buttons in the error box - can't check right now.
> Secondly, in order to make sure the 2.5 inch disc has failed, is there any
> way to connect it to an ARMX6? It's IDE.
There are IDE to SATA adaptors, but the good old motherboard interface
should you first port of call.
---druck