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A500 GVP HD Crash
« on: January 09, 2011, 02:09:53 PM »
I own an Amiga 500 with a GVP HD.  I was using it yesterday and everything was running like a champ then today I go boot it and its just prompting me to insert a disk and not booting off of the hard drive.   Would anyone happen to know some steps that could help me get the drive to boot again without having to reload it?

Thanks for any help!

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Re: A500 GVP HD Crash
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2011, 02:59:23 PM »
So I put in the WB 3.1 disk and held both the mouse buttons down to get to the boot options.  Looking at the boot options I only see DF0 and DF1 no DH0.  When I boot the system it tries several times to access the drive before failing.
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Re: A500 GVP HD Crash
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2011, 03:57:49 PM »
I am not seeing the hard drive after booting to 3.1 off the floppy drive.  

I really have no clue how to look at the startup sequence.  The last time I owned an Amiga I had no hard drive with it.

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Re: A500 GVP HD Crash
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2011, 04:28:43 PM »
Ahh...  I have attached a screen picture of my "Expansion Board Diagnostic".

It is a A500-HD+ GVP with 8MB of RAM.   The hard drive that was in it orginaly was bad so I put a new one in it and loaded the 3.1 onto it with no problems.  I have been playing with it for a few months now.  But unlike modern PC's/Servers I have no clue how to start to diagnose an Amiga.  

It is set to Autoboot, I have not change that and flipping makes do difference on getting it to boot.

Thanks again for the help!

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Re: A500 GVP HD Crash
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2011, 04:58:56 PM »
I do see the ram.  It is also trying to seek on the hard drive when I boot it up.  Is their a disk or program I can run to see if it has some type of bad boot sector?

What cable should I check?  The SCSI?

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Re: A500 GVP HD Crash
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2011, 05:07:40 PM »
The drive is spinning up, I can see it with the GVP Tools Fast Prep.  So lets assume the drive is not bad what else could be wrong?

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Re: A500 GVP HD Crash
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2011, 04:40:09 PM »
What is the default file system for the Amiga?   That's what I used when setting the drive up.  Will this RDBrecov tool not work for me?
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Re: A500 GVP HD Crash
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2011, 08:20:33 PM »
So it sounds like I may have formatted the disk with the wrong file system or one that is not very efficient with error recovery.  What is the best file system to use?

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Re: A500 GVP HD Crash
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2011, 01:01:35 AM »
So I reloaded the drive with SFS and made each partition less than 2 gigs.  Everything seems to be good.  I know this is a silly question but I have to ask, how do I verify that the new partitions are actually SFS?  No "fdisk -l".

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