Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ 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 Lines: 80 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? -- Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University INET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu / BITNET: mp1u+%andrew.cmu.edu@cmccvb UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ "my friends say she's a dumb blonde, but they don't know she dyes her hair"