Tumbling tower a4000

[Will-i-am]

Well let's see...In the never-ending tale of the tower that couldn't we have the following. After getting various IP numbers from the PC to plug into the tower so I could reach thru the router to the WWW, I discovered that I needed a registered version of Miamidx to make Genesis work. Well, I don't have that, nor can I go online to get one, because I can't go online until I get one. Soooo I thought I'd DL Amitcp and try that stack. Got the files, burned onto a CD and tried the CD drive. No can do...says the CD drive isn't mounted. No apparent reason for this, wires okay etc...it was working before I connected the 2nd HD, so I tried without the 2nd HD. No change, no CD drive. I also noted that upon boot-up the screen shows a requestor asking for volume Env:, but then it changes it's mind and boots anyway. So now I figure I'll use Cross Dos to transfer the Amitcp files sneaker net from the PC to the tower. No can do. says the DF0: is not mounted, again, no apparent reason. I try booting from the OS3.9 CD...no luck. the emergency boot floppy disk...no luck. I tried the older 3.1 emergency boot floppy. No luck. So, I have 2 scsi HDs and they boot fine. No floppy, no CD and it seems something odd about my ENV: volume...The tower is using a Cyberstorm PPC/060 card. I do note that the cable to the floppy shows a cheesy repair w/scotch tape covering some bare section of wire. otherwise, any ideas? I'm tired of this. I want the damn thing to boot and have all of it's parts work. I'm about to install a Toaster and I would like to be able to use this A4066 ethernet card, otherwise it's a cute amiga doorstop. :-?

[Will-i-am]

yeah, but see....what we have here is a tower that 1)will not boot from a floppy because it does not seem to know it has a floppy and 2) boots from a HD but will not take info from a CD because it doen't seem to know it has a CD drive anymore. So copying various key files or programs is a difficult task. I have finally found where I hid the A4000T booklet so I can go about making sure the addresses and such are okay and not conflicting. If I can understand the rather terse explanations.When I boot up Miami, which by the way I got INTO the tower thru the CD drive when it could read the CD drive...so I know the CD drive works, or worked at one time.....Miami wants sanami.device before working and wants me to either send off a registration request by mail(too long a wait) or online, which is the point of the whole damn issue. How to get hooked up to the router/cable modem and then online in order to DL various progs I would like to try on the Cyberstorm/PPC setup.

[Will-i-am]

As for ENV, copy the original Startup-Sequence from your original Workbench disk and never again edit it..

Nuther point I should have mentioned. I never willingly touched ENV in the course of all this. Never re-installed WB OS 3.9, nothing. Are you saying I should, once I get it to read from floppies, take the startup from the backup and put it in? And then what would I do in order to avoid altering the ENV? That I am not sure of, if you are saying that by adding the 2nd HD I modified the startup and need to de-modify it? duh, I am so dumb suddenly. I used to think I knew Amigas but now I think it was the A2000 OS1.3 that I knew. Now the A4000s are suddenly acting like "computers" instead of girlfriends. Wait a minute....oh yeah, my old girlfriends used to act like this sometimes, too. sigh.