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Title: Magic Box
Post by: MKGlynn on September 13, 2011, 07:55:14 PM

Help!  I run a community access center and have an Alphagen Magic Box.  We recently had a lightning storm and the power went out.  Now I can't get the system to boot.  It says:
 
"Not a DOS disk in Device DF0"
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Any suggestions on how to get the machine to work.  Limited funds right now to buy something new!!
 
Thanks.
 
MKG

Title: Re: Magic Box
Post by: Heiroglyph on September 13, 2011, 08:06:56 PM

Does it normally boot from floppy?

Eject the floppy disk and then turn it on.  It may be as simple as a random floppy disk being inserted.

If it does usually boot from floppy, make sure it's the right one and see if you have a backup.

Title: Re: Magic Box
Post by: MKGlynn on September 13, 2011, 08:46:04 PM

One of the disks is called:  Alphagen All Models-Universal Project Storage AGA1200 Fast RAM and the other is Project storage AGA1200.  Do you think either of these would work?
 
I am having someone look for other disks that may have come with the machine.  Any ideas on what they may be called?

Title: Re: Magic Box
Post by: Heiroglyph on September 13, 2011, 11:32:35 PM

Have you tried booting with no floppy at all?

I was suggesting that it might have a hard drive that it boots from and having a floppy inserted can prevent that.

Those disks sound like where you would put your projects, not what you would boot from.

In fact now that I think of it, it's NOT booting from the floppy right now, otherwise you wouldn't see that "Not a DOS disk" message.

It's trying to boot from some other disk (probably a hard drive) and when it tries to access the floppy, it then tells you that it can't read it.

Having no boot disk or a bad boot disk would show a big hand on the screen holding a disk, telling you to insert one.

Title: Re: Magic Box
Post by: odin on September 14, 2011, 12:32:09 AM

The company that made them might still be willing to provide new disks if they're fried, although their website does say they don't support it anymore.

http://www.magicboxinc.com/support/discontinued/alphagen.html

Title: Re: Magic Box
Post by: MKGlynn on September 14, 2011, 03:44:09 PM

Thanks for the help.  I did ask the support person at the company and he gave the same suggestions....but now I will ask the person if they have any boot disks available.
 
We can't find any other disks that go with the system.
 
MKG