Hi
I`m sorry its just that you started your post with the statement I bought an A2000HD today. Twenty years, that takes you to the birth of the Amiga and the A1000. So what have you been running all these years. Amazing that you haven`t come across SCSI before.
LLF, is advised in the Amiga manual but every Amiga article I have read in magazines and the like advised against it and I guess other than the odd occasion with a PC drive I have never needed to do it. The drive you have is already formatted to Amiga standard so you really only need to format it through the drop down menu. 40MB is a very small drive so no partitioning will be required.
Check the drive first for errors.
You say faulty. How faulty. Was it making a noise or were there just check sum errors. I`ll have to scan through your posts. If checksum errors then just format as I say.
Workbench Release 2.04 , v37.67 (Kickstart v37.175)
Release date: Late October 1991 New ROM (512KB) and software
Shipped with the Amiga 500+, 3000, and available as update
Did you get the drive working under 2.04 ?
With regard to the software that came with the A2090 and a and b versions ( A2094 ), it preps the drive in respect of the card. Bit like Faaastprep on the GVP Series II SCSI controller and drive. SCSI devices have to be mounted and this software will set up your Amiga to do this. The HDToolbox can be modded to read SCSI devices specifically by setting the Unit Address number and Even LUN to search for.
Sorry, if I offended, but there was no way I could have known you were an Amiga veteran from your post. Again sorry. I`m no veteran I`ve only been using the Amiga since about 1992, but I do have a version of pretty well every model.
All the best. And have fun
scuzz
