two hard drives

[ASharpin]

Hello All,  

I have an Amiga 3000T and bought a second one on e-bay.  I'd like to take the 1.0Gb Seagate Hard Drive from my old machine and add it to the new one.  

I tried this and used "shell info" to see the old hard drive was NOT mounted.  I used the "Tools Mounter" and it shows my old Seagate as one of the SCSI devices.  So now all I have to do is select "mount", right?

I know if I choose "install" it will wipe the information I have stored on it, so I don't want to do that.  I noticed it showed my old Seagate as partitioned into 200M and 800M which is how it was partioned in the old box.

The question is, by choosing "mount" will the information on it be unavailable?  Am I even going about this the right way?  I'd be grateful for any information you can provide.  Thank You.

[Thomas]

I assume you refer to the tool "Mounter" which resides in the "Tools" directory of the OS3.9 system partition. If you choose "Mount" in this tool, it will make the partitions available to Workbench. But next time you reboot, you have to repeat this action.

You should run HDToolbox and check the main HDD of your new Amiga. Probably it will tell you that there were some drives added to or removed from the system. If so, choose "save" to make the second drive available. The background is that the first drive has the "this is the last drive" flag set, so the boot process will not search for additional drives. By removing this flag, the second drive will be mounted automagically on the next reboot.

Bye,
Thomas

[ASharpin]

Thanks for getting right on it Thomas.

I couldn't find anything in the HDToolBox under "Save" that didn't also window a message with words like "Saving will make the data unretrievable".

I did use the "OS3.9:Tools/Mounter" on both partitions of the old harddrive and icons for the partitions appeared on the Workbench screen.

I rebooted and the partition's two icons were still there so everything is going swimmingly.  I also was able to copy over my favorite file handling utility "Diskmaster" and modify the startup-sequence file to include a screen saver on startup.

Thanks again.