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From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Microbotics Stardrive startup query
Message-ID: 
Date: 3 Dec 88 21:24:26 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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Well, I finally assembled the cable for my hard disk yesterday, and
I've spent last night and some part of today setting up shop.  Having
a hard disk is truly a luxury; the feel of my computer has changed
from "inconvenient, but usable" to "baby workstation".

Anyhow, I'm having a small problem with my startup-sequence.  The
startup-sequence on my boot disk currently looks like the following:

c:SetPatch >NIL: 
Echo "A500/A2000 Workbench disk.  Release 1.3 version 34.20*N
Binddrivers
mount dh0:
mount dh1:
defdisk dh0:
MakeDir RAM:t
Assign T: RAM:t
Execute S:Startup-Sequence

the first two lines of dh0:s/startup-sequence are:

Fastmode dh0:
Fastmode dh1:

which put the Microbotics controller into "fastmode".  Trouble is,
the Fastmode commands fail with error code 31 when executed from the
startup-sequence.  They work just fine when I type them at a CLI
prompt, however.

Could a Microbotics maven help me here?  For reference, the drive is
a Seagate ST-157N, mountlist entries below (feel free to correct me
if any of the below paramaters are incorrect -- a lot of it was put
together through guesswork and plaigarism, seeing how Microbotics
didn't see fit to adequately document their hardware and software):

DH0:
    Device = StarDrive.device
    Priority = 0
    Unit = 0
    Flags = 0
    Surfaces = 1
    BlocksPerTrack = 155
    Reserved = 2
    Interleave = 0
    LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 229
    Buffers = 17
    BufMemType = 0
    GlobVec = 1
    FileSystem = L:FastFileSystem
    DosType = 0x444F5301
#

DH1:
    Device = StarDrive.device
    Priority = 0
    Unit = 0
    Flags = 0
    Surfaces = 1
    BlocksPerTrack = 155
    Reserved = 2
    Interleave = 0
    LowCyl = 230 ; HighCyl = 614
    Buffers = 17
    BufMemType = 0
    GlobVec = 1
    FileSystem = L:FastFileSystem
    DosType = 0x444F5301
#

HELPFUL HINT for those of you constructing your own Mountlists:  The
file names for Device=, Handler=, and FileSystem= are CASE SENSITIVE.
My mountlist didn't work when "Device = stardrive.device" or
"FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem".  Why are things case sensitive here
when they aren't in the rest of AmigaDOS?

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