Amiga 1000 SCSI drive error just now...

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Is the error coming from the floppy disk, or after it's handed off the boot sequence to the HD?  In either case I'd be concerned that your drive may be starting to fail, or might've been in the state of writing data to the drive during the Guru, so you've got some corrupt data on there.  Not sure what disk checking applications work under 1.3... Um, DiskDoctor?  :-/

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Just a quick thought, if you haven't done this already I'd back up right away any data you might have on that old 40MB drive.  Good luck!

Also - maybe pull the drive and connect it to one of your other Amiga's, and then run DiskSalv on it that way?

Edit 2: size limitations are probably going to be more of an issue with the firmware of your drive controller, rather than the OS.  Assuming you're not going to stick a >4GB drive on an OS 1.3 machine, haha.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I'm thinking the tool you're using can't validate the drive that it itself is stored on.  Sort of like if you store the repair tool on Foo: it can't validate Foo:, you need to store it on Foo2: .    Maybe I missed it but have you tried creating a "recovery" boot disk floppy, with just enough gubbins to load the OS and the recovery tool, and run it off the floppy?  Just a wild guess there, probably still better to perform the validation in another Miggy.

Damned Amiga hard disk validation errors, 10 years ago I blew up my A1200 that way, which had years of custom configuration work done on it, when some disk operation created a recursive listing, sort of like Stuff:stuff\, Stuff:stuff\stuff, Stuff:stuff\stuff\stuff... etc., it got so deep that when it tried to reboot and validate itself it just guru'd.  If I'd only had another Amiga on-hand to validate it with, I probably wouldn't have left the Amiga scene for 10 years!  :p

Edit: sorry if this seems obvious why we keep suggesting it, but your signature does list an A1000, A2000, and A1200 - surely one of those can act as a host to perform the validation??

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Have you considered adding a CF instead of a mechanical drive?  There's all sorts of ways, SCSI-to-IDE bridge, SCSI card reader, one of those homebrew CF adapters that mounts underneath the processor with the five zillion page long thread on Amibay, etc.

In my limited experience adding hard drives to Amigas, I never had to mess with a mountlist entry, I always just configured them through HDToolbox and away I go.  Not sure how you'd do this under 1.3, I assume your controller has some special software for prepping hard drives that works under 1.3?  You may want to read up on the documentation and limitations (if any) for your particular controller before making a decision.  Maximum partition size, etc.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Don't get too jealous, but look at the sweet A1000 in the last picture in this thread.  

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=46414&page=2