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Offline motruckerTopic starter

eternal HD drive troubles
« on: February 18, 2010, 01:32:01 AM »
I am trying to use an old Power Computing XL drive (high density) with an A2000 using a PP&S 2000/040 card with 16Mb of fast RAM and 1Mb of chip RAM. When I install the software patch this drive needs, the system will not boot. It hangs just before loading Workbench (Gives no errors however - just hangs there).
I have used this drive on my old A1200 and my old A2000 (with GVP 030 card) and it worked fine. So, I suspect it doesn't like the 040 (or Vice versa).
Has any one run into this, and made it work?
A2000 GVP 40MHz \'030, 21Mb RAM SD/FF, 2 floppies, internal CD-ROM drive, micromys v3 w/laser mouse
A1000 Microbotics Starboard II w/2Mb 1080, & external floppy (AIRdrive)
C-128 w/1571, 1750, & Final Cartridge III+
 

Offline motruckerTopic starter

Re: eternal HD drive troubles
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2010, 06:44:33 PM »
No one?
A2000 GVP 40MHz \'030, 21Mb RAM SD/FF, 2 floppies, internal CD-ROM drive, micromys v3 w/laser mouse
A1000 Microbotics Starboard II w/2Mb 1080, & external floppy (AIRdrive)
C-128 w/1571, 1750, & Final Cartridge III+
 

Offline motruckerTopic starter

Re: eternal HD drive troubles
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2010, 04:15:19 AM »
@ Cammy
  I tried disabling the cache, with awful results. Right now the only other system I have is an A1000 that this drive has always refused to work with. It used to work great with my A1200...
@MozzerFan
   I will try that asap. At least it's something I can try!
@Matt_H
   There are four different versions that I am aware of, with 1.4 being the newest (that's what I am using - installed in the user-startup as the first entry (something it demands)

Thank you all. You may have kicked a couple of new ideas into my head. If I succeed I'll let you all know. This is the first time I have heard of this drive not working on any 3.1 OS system.
A2000 GVP 40MHz \'030, 21Mb RAM SD/FF, 2 floppies, internal CD-ROM drive, micromys v3 w/laser mouse
A1000 Microbotics Starboard II w/2Mb 1080, & external floppy (AIRdrive)
C-128 w/1571, 1750, & Final Cartridge III+
 

Offline motruckerTopic starter

Re: eternal HD drive troubles
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2010, 07:03:26 PM »
Here's an interesting twist - I was using what I thought was the newest patch, v1.4. BUT I just found the disk I am sure came with the last drive I bought (circa 1999) and it also has V1.4 however the install routine is totally different, and with this patch, the drive works!
Apparently we can't trust the numbers!
A2000 GVP 40MHz \'030, 21Mb RAM SD/FF, 2 floppies, internal CD-ROM drive, micromys v3 w/laser mouse
A1000 Microbotics Starboard II w/2Mb 1080, & external floppy (AIRdrive)
C-128 w/1571, 1750, & Final Cartridge III+