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Offline EclipseTopic starter

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A600 HD Help needed.
« on: December 10, 2005, 01:34:48 PM »
Hi,
 My A600 has an 800MB HD fitted.
When I install workbench (2.05) it seems to install workbench on a partition of 6MB and then the rest on something called "work". It also calls workbench "system2.0". Is this normal?

I also have the 3com Lan card and a flash card. The thing is no matter what I do they won't run from workbench under the HD. They will work if you use the disks that came with them. The flash card even had an installer which still did nothing.
The drivers for both are in the Devs folder as well.
Any ideas? Maybe some startup-sequence hacking needed.
Thanks for any help in advance.
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Re: A600 HD Help needed.
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2005, 01:37:16 PM »
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Hi,
 My A600 has an 800MB HD fitted.
When I install workbench (2.05) it seems to install workbench on a partition of 6MB and then the rest on something called "work". It also calls workbench "system2.0". Is this normal?

Did you partition the hard drive prior to installing Workbench, or are you allowing the installer to partition for you? If the latter, then that is probably why the installer is creating a 6mb System partition.

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I also have the 3com Lan card and a flash card. The thing is no matter what I do they won't run from workbench under the HD. They will work if you use the disks that came with them. The flash card even had an installer which still did nothing.
The drivers for both are in the Devs folder as well.
Any ideas? Maybe some startup-sequence hacking needed.
Thanks for any help in advance.

Can you go through the steps you took to install them, may give us an idea what has gone wrong.

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Re: A600 HD Help needed.
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2005, 01:48:30 PM »
Hi,
 I let the disks do it's stuff for the HD installation.
I can't remember how to partition the HD  :-(

I booted from the HD in both instances of the PCMCIA cards.
The flash card had an installer that was on the floppy.

I physically copied the driver from the 3com disk over to the HD as it didn't have an installer. It was put in the Devs folder.

Strangely the flash card now works if I add this to the S-Sequence:
C:Mount >NIL: Devs:DosDrivers/~(#?Info)
This was in the SS that was on the floppy.
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Re: A600 HD Help needed.
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2005, 01:54:00 PM »
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 I let the disks do it's stuff for the HD installation.
I can't remember how to partition the HD  :-(

You need an Install disk then use HDToolBox to create the partitions. Format them with Workbench, then use the installer to copy Workbench on to the disk. DON'T let it partition automatically or it will delete the partitions you just created and make new one :-)

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I booted from the HD in both instances of the PCMCIA cards.
The flash card had an installer that was on the floppy.

I physically copied the driver from the 3com disk over to the HD as it didn't have an installer. It was put in the Devs folder.

Hmmm not sure how to get the 3com working. Have you installed a TCP/IP stack?

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Strangely the flash card now works if I add this to the S-Sequence:
C:Mount >NIL: Devs:DosDrivers/~(#?Info)
This was in the SS that was on the floppy.

That's not so strange. The installer probably copied a DOSDriver and a MountList over. You have to mount it to get the volume to appear on Workbench.

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Re: A600 HD Help needed.
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2005, 12:18:47 AM »
Are you using the Aminet driver for the ata flash?  iirc, you need to not only install the dosdriver but also the windows compatible fat-32 filesystem along with it (because the pcmcia flash drive is really a pc harddisk).  As for the 3Com card, there is a hardware fault in the A1200 with the pcmcia reset.  There are a couple utilities you need to install in either startup-sequence or user-startup called CardReset or somesuch (should be in the readme file with the driver).  Once you have the driver installed properly, you can then see if it is activated by typing in the device driver and unit id in a program like Miami (which should tell you if the device works or not).
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Re: A600 HD Help needed.
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2005, 01:33:16 AM »
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> Strangely the flash card now works if I add this to the S-Sequence:
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> C:Mount >NIL: Devs:DosDrivers/~(#?Info)
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As mentioned by someone else, you just needed to mount the driver. The above command, as I understand it, automatically mounts any drivers found in the folder. Its quicker (and easier) than writing:

C:Mount >NIL: Devs:DosDrivers/awnpipe
C:Mount >NIL: Devs:DosDrivers/zipdrive
C:Mount >NIL: Devs:DosDrivers/pc1
C:Mount >NIL: Devs:DosDrivers/pc2


and also enables you to avoid any typo's when adding one to the list.


As a sidenote, I never mess with my "Sys:s/startup-sequence" file, it incorporates code that detects and runs a "user-startup" file also stored in the "Sys:s/" drawer.
This means I can add/remove anything without the risk of accidentally ruining any valuable workbench startup commands :)


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Re: A600 HD Help needed.
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2005, 02:01:32 PM »
Hi,
 I see, thanks. I'll edit the user-startup instead.

I'm thinking that for the 3com network card I'm going to need someone who has done it before and who is willing to give me a step by step of how to get it working.
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