BLIZZARD 1230 + battery= not a dos disk

Dave_wb · 24 May 2013, 19:40

Hello everyone,
Never having had a battery on my 1230 accelerator card I posted it off to Amigakit to have one fitted.As expected they did a great job of work on the card and I eagerly put it back into my Miggy 1200.This was a week ago and ever since whenever I try to install software after prep'ing on my Pc with Magic Workbench I immediately get a checksum error.Whether I do a soft reboot or a boot from cold after the error the result is always the same."Not A Dos Disk on DH0".I have 4 drives that I can swap out - each has a different workbench on it - 2 are mechanical drives and 2 are 4gig compact flash cards.When I hook them up to the Pc and run WinUAE I get the same error and have to reinstall DH0.The other 2 partitions on all the drives holding mostly games are fine - I only need to format DH0 and reinstall.I dont want to remove the battery if I can help it - has anyone got any ideas as to what is causing this?? I am assuming it is the battery because I have a spare 1200 without a battery on the accelerator and that runs with no problems......er help would be greatly appreciated
Dave

Turran · 24 May 2013, 20:53

If it weren't for the fact that it works without the accelerator, I'd say you do not have
MaxTransfer = 0x1fe00
on the drives...

roy bates · 25 May 2013, 17:37

theres no way it would be the battery,so like the above comment try the maxtransfer setting.
you might have to reinstall the software though.(due to corrupted files)just saying in advance.

24 May 2013, 19:40	#1
Dave_wb Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wootton Bassett England Age: 66 Posts: 193	BLIZZARD 1230 + battery= not a dos disk Hello everyone, Never having had a battery on my 1230 accelerator card I posted it off to Amigakit to have one fitted.As expected they did a great job of work on the card and I eagerly put it back into my Miggy 1200.This was a week ago and ever since whenever I try to install software after prep'ing on my Pc with Magic Workbench I immediately get a checksum error.Whether I do a soft reboot or a boot from cold after the error the result is always the same."Not A Dos Disk on DH0".I have 4 drives that I can swap out - each has a different workbench on it - 2 are mechanical drives and 2 are 4gig compact flash cards.When I hook them up to the Pc and run WinUAE I get the same error and have to reinstall DH0.The other 2 partitions on all the drives holding mostly games are fine - I only need to format DH0 and reinstall.I dont want to remove the battery if I can help it - has anyone got any ideas as to what is causing this?? I am assuming it is the battery because I have a spare 1200 without a battery on the accelerator and that runs with no problems......er help would be greatly appreciated Dave

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24 May 2013, 20:53	#2
Turran Moderator Join Date: May 2012 Location: Stockholm / Sweden Age: 49 Posts: 1,575	If it weren't for the fact that it works without the accelerator, I'd say you do not have MaxTransfer = 0x1fe00 on the drives...

25 May 2013, 17:37	#3
roy bates Registered User Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: birmingham Age: 55 Posts: 2,827	theres no way it would be the battery,so like the above comment try the maxtransfer setting. you might have to reinstall the software though.(due to corrupted files)just saying in advance.

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