amiga-dev: Re: Sup 30 May experiences; mostly works!

Subject: Re: Sup 30 May experiences; mostly works!
To: Michael L. Hitch <osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu>
From: None <rhealey@aggregate.com>
List: amiga-dev
Date: 05/31/1994 15:21:08

> > 	2: On boot, you HAVE to have a floppy in the drive or the boot
> > 	 will stall. Additionally, my 1.76M floppy registers as 0
> > 	 rather than the AAAAAAA type so the driver doesn't register it
> > 	 as a 3.5hd" floppy unit.
> 
> Did you put a HD or DD disk in the drive? The ID is based on the type
> of disk in the drive when it boots. If I have a HD disk in the floppy on
> my A4000, it is recognized as 3.5hd. I haven't tried booting without a
> floppy in the drive (the drive is a handy place to keep the floppy I've
> been using to transfer the kernel from one system to the other).
> 
	I tried it with both densitys, they both took the default case
	and returned zero rather than one of the 3 bit patterns. It is
	drive 0 so that may be an issue.
		-Rob
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