Advice on Installing OS 3.9 on an A4000 desktop

[jackson312]

When you format them you can rename them, but if you change them in the HDtoolbox, bad things can happen.

I discovered by trial and error it likes to name things like davideo said. Seagate drives are usually start with an "S", but I did try an old Seagate drive (with Commodore stamp). It wanted just to put "HD0", "HD1", ...

I managed to get the machine up with a 36 Gig SCSI (Seagate Cheeta). It is attached directly to Warp Engine. I have the cable running under the metal bridge. When I get the bracket, I will be able to connect the external CDROM using that. For now I am using an A2091

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I had a quick question. The system won't come up unless there is a CD in the CDROM drive.

I was able to get rid of the dependency on the EMERGENCY-CDROM by moving it out of the Devs/DosDrivers, but the system still wants something in the drive, or it won't boot.

Any suggestions on which "extras" are the most useful?

 

[status]

When you format them you can rename them, but if you change them in the HDtoolbox, bad things can happen.

I discovered by trial and error it likes to name things like davideo said. Seagate drives are usually start with an "S", but I did try an old Seagate drive (with Commodore stamp). It wanted just to put "HD0", "HD1", ...

Pardon my partially offtopic but what happend when you "disobeyed" it's orders? Because i have some sudden freezes on my a1200@030 since my last repartitioning with FFS.

P.s. my hdd always was/is a cf adapter with a 4gb sandisk cut in 3, 250~ mb being the workbench partition.

 

[fitzsteve]

@Status, you can call the partitions whatever you like, you can call them Tom, Dick and Harry if you want

I think your freezing is probably unrelated, maybe somethings getting hot or not connected properlly or even a weak PSU.

 

[davideo]

For instance my 4000D has the following

IDH0 to IDH2 on warpdrive.device 6 (SCSI)
SDH0 on scsi.device 1 (IDE CARD)
MDH0 to MDH5 on scsi.device 0 (IDE HDs)

Yes that's right a total of 10 HD

Dave G

Just to remove any confusion or to add to it

The above names are from asking information on the HDs. They do all have logical names such as : Games, Games2, Workbench, Programs, Spare, Data, etc.

Dave G

 

[Kin Hell]

Heck, you can name your partitions the way you like!

Call one Samantha, other Daisy, another Ron_Jeremy, as you want! Just use less than 20 characters and don't use invalid ones, like "/" or "!", nor spaces (avoid spaces in partitions names, some programs will have a pink fit with they).

Ron Jeremy! - PMSL!!

Kin

 

[rkauer]

My low level boot partition's name is Alexis_Texas...

Seriously, nothing bad will happen when you change the low level name, all that can make a fuss is a wrong mask (over 0xfffffe when true FAST RAM is not available at boot time, or over 0xfffffc when no Zorro-2 RAM is available) and max_transfer over 0x1fe00 for compact flash cards and slow hard disks.

For confirmation, you can ask for Thomas Raupp on Amiga.org or EAB.

 

[jackson312]

I had a quick question. The system won't come up unless there is a CD in the CDROM drive.

I was able to get rid of the dependency on the EMERGENCY-CDROM by moving it out of the Devs/DosDrivers, but the system still wants something in the drive, or it won't boot.

Any suggestions on which "extras" are the most useful?

 

[rkauer]

Put the CD0 icon away from DEVS/DOSDRIVERS and activate it only when need.

 

[jackson312]

There was no CD0 icon under devs/dosdrivers. The emergency-cdrom works for mounting things. I can just double click on it and it will mount the cdrom (I moved it out from dev/dosdrivers to the disk (to bad I haven't figure a way to put it on the workbench).

The A2091 had a quirk. If the CDROM drive was turned on but no CD was inside, it would wait until I put on in before allowing the machine to boot. If it was turned off then no problems.

I did switch over to the Warp Engine SCSI for my CDROM and removed the A2091 (I got the bracket in yesterday). That (the CDROM needing a CD in it) problem went away.

I have not upgraded to boingbag1 or 2, I'll be doing that next. Now I have a way to get things onto my machine (burn a CD).

Anyone get the Deneb USB adapter to work? I installed it, but when I open the control panel, it complains about not having "muimaster.library".

Put the CD0 icon away from DEVS/DOSDRIVERS and activate it only when need.

 

[rkauer]

The A2901 will not boot with a CD-ROM unit on the chain without a CD inside it.

Does not need to be a data CD: a music one will do the trick.

Also, the "second" place where the mount command look is always Storage/DosDrivers, so there is the place to move unused icons.

 

[tjoaos]

Help slim dell external drive

Help slim dell external drive

Can any wan help me wiht pinout from cable Amiga External Slim Floppy from DELL DX9???

 

[davideo]

Can any wan help me wiht pinout from cable Amiga External Slim Floppy from DELL DX9???

I would suggest that you start your own thread on the subject rather than mix in with this one.

Dave G