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Offline Acill

You need to connect that SCSI2SD up to a PC like I mentioned and change the SCSI ID to something other than 0 like the main one is set at. In HDtoolbox change your boot drive to a priority higher than the other drives. You can do this and save with no data loss.

DHO: (or whatever you named it) boot priority 40
DH1: priority 45
DH2: Work Drive priority 50
Floppy should be higher so it boots first if a floppy is inserted.

Also don't forget you can also hold both mouse buttons at bootup to get into the early startup and select a drive to boot for testing as well.

This gives you room to add new drives to the chain and use something like like 51, 52, 53 etc... The lower the number the higher its priority. So in this example DH0 will boot first, then DH1, then DH2.
You can also use negative numbers. like -1 and -10 to spread out the lists even more.



Normal for DF0 = 5, DF1 = -10, DF2 = -20, DF3 = -30, HDD = 0.

 If you want to prevent it to boot from floppy, set your HDD to 6 or higher. If you want to boot from every floppy drive, even if a HDD is connected, then set the HDD to -31 or lower.

If the drives boot backwards I may have my order wrong. If that's the case its higher numbers before lower, but I don't think that is right. I believe the way I wrote it is correct. I am at my grand parents currently, but will look at my hard drives setup when home after 8 tonight and reply back as well. You can play with it and just write down the order you have to return. I like using larger numbers, some like the stock like I put in. I have LOTS of drives though and cant remember what I did off the top of my head.
« Last Edit: March 27, 2016, 08:31:18 PM by Acill »
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Offline Acill

Re: A3000 project - Using a external 2nd SCSI2SD device as storage HDD
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2016, 04:53:43 AM »
Okay, so my current setup is like this when I look in HDToolBox

My main boot drive is DH0: and its priority in the partition is -4

Backup is DH1: and it is priority 74

The remaining partitions are not set to boot and are Work1: and Work2:

So the -4 on DH0: boots first at all times.
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