I'v got an Amiga 500 with two hard drives and a CD drive. All are hooked up via a DataFlyer 500 controller. I've formatted the hard drives and installed Workbench 1.3 on one, but the machine won't boot when the other hard drive (which doesn't have Workbench or anything else on it) is disconnected. Both were formatted using the DataFlyer formatting utility, which also was used to install Workbench on one of the drives. I set the boot priority to some negative value for the non-Workbench drive, but I'm still getting the Kickstart screen when I turn off or unplug it.
In addition, the DataFlyer utility will freeze the computer really nastily when I run it with the CD drive connected. It'll get to it's SCSI ID and sit there forever with the cursor stuck and the floppy access light on. I haven't installed a driver of any sort for the CD drive; could this be causing it? Confounding the issue further, I can only seem to run the DataFlyer utility when I boot from the DataFlyer setup disk.
Is there a better way to format the hard drives? Is there at least a way to make it boot from the main hard disk even if the extra one is turned off or disconnected?
