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A500 Help with Harddisk
« on: June 14, 2005, 10:38:35 PM »
Hello all!

First sorry if this has been asked before, but even with massive searching I haven't found anything..
So I'll try asking here.

I just recently got an Amiga 500 (After forced to sell mine years back.. damn parents)

And it came with a harddisk, I have no idea how big or what kind, all it says its "Skyline" on the top of the case.
Well of course I tried to install it in WB with the 2 disks that came with it, but in the "HD Tool" Drawers are only stuff like "Mount DF1" "Unmount DF2" "RAD INstall" and likewise things.. Noone of these actually access the HD, Only "PArk" does which, my guess, manually parks the HD heads, which it does, so the HD works and is recognized by the Amiga.

But there is no HD icon found on my WB desktop..

Could anyone help? Or point me to a site which maybe featers the howtos?

Any help would be much appreciated, I could also give more infos if needed!
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Re: A500 Help with Harddisk
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2005, 05:33:11 PM »



It says 2.0 Rom in the idle boot screen.. Along with (37.175)

And I use WB 2.05 I think.
No the HD Looks comes in its own steel case, with a black front. IT's pretty heavy too, I could take a picture if needed.

Thanks for your input Plaz!

 

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Re: A500 Help with Harddisk
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2005, 09:32:41 PM »
Yeah that's what I'm trying to do. But on the disk that came with it.. are tons of weird options.. like I wrote above like Mount DF1, EDstartup etc.. I can post a whole list if needed.
 

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Re: A500 Help with Harddisk
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2005, 03:51:31 PM »
No I don't see the HD in the boot screen, but it does spin up when I turn the amiga on.

I guess I need to format it, but how? All the programs that came with it are more or less cryptic..

Ok here's a list with the programs found in the "HD Utilitis" folder on the install disk:

Mount DH1
Mount DH2
Mount DH3
Install RAD
UM
LockDH0
Unlock DH0
ED Startup-Sequence
ED HD-Startup
ED Mount List
Create Install Disk
 

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Re: A500 Help with Harddisk
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2005, 04:06:27 PM »
Yeah I got the original WB 2.05 disks.. it is somewhere on there?