A1200 OS install problems

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Hi,

My A1200 has Microbotics 1230 card (030/50) with 128mb RAM, Dataflyer SCSI, 80gb WD internal HD. Nothing on SCSI port or PCMCIA port right now. Diamondscan 15khz monitor.

HD is partitioned with two 1GB partitions right now, with the rest empty.

I can install WB 3.1 on the first partition and everything is happy. I don't need any additional software for the 1230, memory autoconfigures. The machine works and is stable.

I hooked up a CD drive and copied OS 3.1, OS 3.5, and OS 3.9 CDs to folders on the second partition.

When I install OS 3.5 or 3.9, the machine will boot but as soon as I try to do anything (for eg. open Prefs) I get the error "DH0 Program Failed #80000004". Same thing happens if I install from the OS CD.

Originally I was trying to do an upgrade install on top of the old OS, but the same thing happens if I reformat DH0: and install the OS fresh. WB 3.1 is perfect, 3.5 or 3.9 explode.

Any hints? Patches I need to install, known problems with the OS installer, etc.? Help appreciated.

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Well, I went back and installed both boingbags on top of 3.5 with the same result... a variety of programs give me the 80000004 error. Some googling tells me that this seems to be the occasional issue on accelerated 1200s... however I haven't found a solution yet! Suggestions appreciated.

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Hi,
Is the Dataflyer considered a buffered interface like the 4-way IDEs and suchlike? With WB3.1 I can just install the OS and the IDE HD works fine with nothing attached to the Dataflyer SCSI and no drivers installed, so I wasn't worried about Dataflyer drivers unless I had something on the SCSI port. It never does ask that specific question during install, is there some place I need to manually make an edit?

I've been installing on freshly formatted DH0: (1gb partition at the start of 80gb WD 2.5" IDE drive) so I know there is no other software there to interfere.

Right now I've got WB3.1 on it, I'm installing the Dataflyer driver with BabelCDFS so I can try doing the install from my SCSI CD drive.

Thanks for the advice....

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Just a bit more info - my CD is the Archos Overdrive PCMCIA attached IDE drive. I have no idea what .device it uses ... when I look at the CD0 entry in Devs:DOSDrivers it shows "Handler=" as opposed to "Device=scsi.device" or whatever - so I am really having trouble making the emergency disk.

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As per 3.5 Install FAQ:

Setpatch QUIET SKIPROMUPDATES "scsi.device"

appears to have corrected my crashy issues. I have 3.5 with both BBs installed now. That command line is supposed to fix problems with "A3000 models with 4x IDE cards".

Since I have neither (this is an A1200 with a Dataflyer SCSI adapter...) it wasn't obvious to me that this would be the fix.

I wonder if this means that I can't use a HD partition of > 4GB? There's some stuff in there about Setpatch updating scsi.device to support large drives... I believe with the Dataflyer I'm using ExpXDS.device instead though.

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zipper wrote:
Have you checked if there is a line in the OS update to enable that particular device to support >4 GB?

Well, there is a line where Setpatch is looking for ExpSys.device... my driver is called ExpXDS.device - wonder if that's the correct one?

Meanwhile I now have all the boingbags and Ethernet working... as well as my SCSI CD on the Dataflyer.