Re: mpd roadrunner hd system, Limerick

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <2q9d9f$9nu@zircon.cs.uow.edu.au>,
David E A Wilson <david@zircon.cs.uow.edu.au> wrote:
>astange@unibase.Unibase.SK.CA (Alan Stange) writes:
>>Help!  I just installed a harddrive in my //e.  I have a few
>>questions for anyone familiar with the thing.
>>3.  How come when I turn the //e on it gets stalled reading
>>    drive 1 and never shifts to the hd like they say it will?
>
>Who are they? The Disk ][ is a dumb device and once the //e tries to boot from
>it it will hang if the disk is not bootable. To boot off your HD put the
>controller card in a higher slot than the Disk ][ card. If the HD fails to
>boot then the slotscan will continue in the next lower slot. Alternatively
>get a smart 5.25" controller like the UDC.

Something else to mention is that only an enhanced //e can boot directly from a
hard disk (or 3.5 for that matter) on powering up or hitting cmd-ctrl-reset.
You have to use a PR# to the appropriate slot on an unenhanced //e. So if you
don't have the enhancement that's the problem.
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Randy Shackelford                                "That's right, keep dancing
shack@crash.cts.com                               on the minefield"
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