Re: Done it again... :-(

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:03:41 -0700, Coda wrote:

> When you reboot the machine, its probably booting the boot sector from
> the hard drive first rather than the floppy's auto program (I cant be
> sure with the mega, never had one). If so, then its loading hddriver 7
> off the HD bootsector, then loading the auto folder version of hddriver
> 8.

That seems to be correct, AFAICT. Confusion between the new/old drivers
and what was running at bootup.

> Try holding down the CTRL key to force the computer to skip booting
> *ANY* devices, then once you get to GEM, insert HDDRIVER V8 floppy,
> browse to auto folder and run hddriver.prg. Next run hddrutil.app and
> do an install driver or what ever it is, I cant remember, then reboot
> mega without the floppy.

It was <alt>, no software at all, then ran hddriver.prg from the auto
folder on the floppy. It found the partitions correctly then. Then running
the utility app from the floppy, auto configure, with preserve old
partitions on, and bingo, the reboot worked fine.

> If this doesnt work, im sure Uwe will be able to help you further.

I've no doubt that the "guru" of Atari hard drives could! <smile>

One thing I've noticed though, there seems to be one small bootup diff.
from 7 to 8.15. On bootup from the hard drive, there is a 3-4 second
pause, right after the devices are displayed. Its not the floppy pause,
I've got a blank, formatted floppy in the drive. This pause was not there
under 7.0. Its probably just some odd setting or the other, I'll review
the options when I get more time later.

> BTW. A little tip:
> Whenever upgrading one version to another *NEVER* delete anything. In
> this case you should have renamed the folder to HDDRIVER.7 or
> something.

Actually, while thats good advice, its not the best (wait, wait, don't get
upset!), the best advice would be for gung-ho people like me to *ASK* here
on comp.sys.atari.st FIRST so that people like you, Uwe, and Lonny can
keep me out of trouble! <big grin>

Thanks ever so much (and to the forums on Atari-age that also posted
helpful info)!!!

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