Re: Making a Mega STE with HDD boot from floppy

"Coda" <smeg_007@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1122721605.423439.19640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Well if theres anything else you want to know, shout.
>
> BTW, I had a German MSTe too, I got Chris (Exxos) to burn me an
English
> 2.06. Maybe if you ask him nicely...
>
> Coda.
>

Exxos: Already there ;-) Just trying to decide what little thank
you-prezzie I'm going to put in the jiffy bag.

Ah, now totally fluent in Atari German ;-) Have partitioned and
formatted the disk now with AHDI 5.0, tried to patch it with the effect
being that it won't do a thing without a floppy disk in it, so reverted
on the patch. May do 6.05 tomorrow to see how that behaves.

Thing that confuses me is that if a floppy disk is present it HD boots
immiediately, take the disk out and it adds another 5-10 secs before
it'll recongnise the space-bar being pressed and then the FDD light
stays on continually until a disk is inserted. Should it do that? The
only HD related visible file I have on the HDD is SHDRIVER.SYS in the
root, removed AHDI.PRG which was in the AUTO folder as it was loading
twice, so guess that's install already in the boot sector. As already
mentioned, if I patch AHDI with HD_PATCH then it stops recognising the
HD as a logical drive.

Have read the experiences of others on the various forums so trying not
to duplicate here, their problems seem to centre around HD upgrades and
formatting alone.

Lots to write up.

Will boot from floppy if Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed, then ALT for a short
while until it picks up the boot sector with ALT still being held, else
gets halfway through the FDD boot and reverts to the HD boot. Can't get
it to do it from power-on ALT or reset ALT though. Takes a bit of
getting used to to get it right, bit of a black art this MSTE floppy
booting.

Aly :-)


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