Amiga 1010 External Drive Question

[cmvsm]

I was wondering if the A1000 has to be completely booted via Kickstart and Workbench for the External 1010 drive to be operational and recognized. I have a 1010 that I've hooked up to my A1000, but it does nothing..no lights, no noise, no vibrations. That said, my A1000 turns on and asks for the Kickstart disk, but I haven't been able to boot up as of yet, so was curious if these two are related.

The only reason I ask is because I've seen others have to hook up their 1010 internally to use as a substitution for a dead internal drive.

Thanks.

[Matt_H]

I think the Kickstart at least needs to be loaded, so don't write it off just yet!

I've never owned a 1000, but speaking from experience with other Amigas:
-Only DF0: (the internal drive) is bootable (by default)
-Drives only light up when checking a disk
-The machine only polls for disk presence if trackdisk.device is functional (i.e., the system is not crashed). With no Kickstart, there's no trackdisk.device, and the simple boot ROMs in the 1000 may not know how to poll additional floppy drives.

[cmvsm]

Thanks a million for that. I was thinking along those lines, but wasn't sure. What I might do is pull the internals from the external drive, install as my main internal drive, and see what happens. I've seen others say that the internals of the 1010 should work and install as a main internal drive on the A1000?

[danbeaver]

As noted that will work fine. Oddly and way off topic, I left a boot floppy in DF1: in my newly acquired A3000, and it booted from it. Never had that happen before. The internals are backward with the twist before DF1 but it is still DF1 isn't it?