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Re: Amiga 4000 rom 3.1 unable to read workbench 3.1
« on: June 30, 2009, 09:30:21 PM »
Quote from: eXidy;514016
I just got 3.1 roms for my amiga 4000 (had 3.0).
Now it wont read my 3.1 install / workbench disks.

They work in my A600, but not on my 4000.

Am I doing something wrong :)?

Jon


Does your A4000 show the purple boot screen with the floppy animation? Does your A4000 load other floppies than your Workbench disks?
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Re: Amiga 4000 rom 3.1 unable to read workbench 3.1
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2009, 09:44:22 PM »
Quote from: eXidy;514018
If I place the INSTALL 3.1 disk (or workbench 3.1) It wont boot from it.
But it will if I place the the 3.0 disks.

Since I have an HD, it wont show the boot screen with the disk animation.

Jon


I presume you have a working 3.0 install on your HD then?

So we have established that you have the roms inserted correctly. What happens if you pop in the Install 3.1 floppy after you boot from HD? Does the system recognise the floppy?

You could have a bad floppy that happens to work on your A600; time to make a backup on your A600! Or your A4000 floppy drive is going bad or is dirty.
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Re: Amiga 4000 rom 3.1 unable to read workbench 3.1
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2009, 10:28:23 PM »
Quote from: A4000_Mad;514029
Turns out I was looking at Flashlab's sig, sorry :insane:


Heh, heh! I have my setup working fine!

Anyway, let's just first get some things clear:

- With HD I meant hard disk.
- You have correctly installed the roms: 40.68 is correct for kickstart 3.1.
- If you don't have an 060 card (if you don't know, you probably don't have one) you can ignore A4000_Mad's comment about the library files.

Now some questions:

1. Have you now formatted your hard disk or floppy/floppies?
2. In case you didn't (which would be most convenient now) can you boot into a working Workbench 3.0 environment?
3. If you can; what happens when you insert your 3.1 floppies into the floppy drive? (I don't get the "insert floppy into HD" part of your post. Do you mean High Density floppy drive or indeed Hard Disk; which would make no sense...) Does the drive ignore the the floppy disk totally or does it show DF0:???? or a different comment?

Your conclusion that your disks are fine, sadly doesn't always fly old Amiga floppy drives. Your findings are just that. Your WB3.1 floppies can be read by your A600's drive and your WB3.0 floppies by your A4000's drive. Floppy drives can become picky, dirty and fail. Some disks work in one drive and refuse to work on others. The problem can then lie with the floppy itself or with the drive; it has nothing to do with the roms.
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Re: Amiga 4000 rom 3.1 unable to read workbench 3.1
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2009, 06:32:53 AM »
Quote from: spaceman88;514049
Hi,
You don't have High Density disks formated as Double Density do you? They will work in your 600 but not your 4000 unless you put tape over the extra "hole".
Len


Good one!
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