Help with Amiga 500 AddHard by Ashcom Design

[iowtheme]

Hi All

Put up for ebay 45Mb ADDHard and it work?









So guy the problem is plug it in to the A500 and then turn the machine on



and it boots to a window, but not to WB, I type in Dir as showing in picture so I can access the drive what I can see looks like WB not fully installed



look at this web site http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/addhard
to find some software

it tell me Notes
doesn't seem to work with software that scans all units (e.g. HDToolBox) - instead, HDInstTools or the GVP FaaastPrep program can be used:
device driver has to be loaded into RAM first, by issuing "version ADD_SCSI.device"
HDInstTools / FaaastPrep has to be called with device driver and unit as parameter ("ADD_SCSI.device unit 0")

I download this software for a web site but it is not working



I have boot for floppy drive with WB 1.3 or 2.0 and operating system can not see HD

So can any one help with this plz it has been 26 years since I installed an external drive on A500

.
.
.

[Amiga1992]

You don't have to prepare your hard drive, it's already formatted and the system sees it.
You just need to install from Workbench disks.
Use the Install Disk that came with Workbench 2.x

However it might be that the drive is not bootable, from the looks of it it has no system on it only data and some commands, so you MIGHT have to change the partition so it becomes bootable.

Try creating an S folder and a startup-sequence inside with a few commands and see if teh system executes it.

Even making a startup-sequence that says inside

echo This is working fine

will do.

[desiv]

Originally Posted by Akira

However it might be that the drive is not bootable, from the looks of it it has no system on it only data and some commands, so you MIGHT have to change the partition so it becomes bootable..

I'd definitely check for an S directory, as it's possible (can't tell from the screenshot) that it's missing???

What about the "install" command?
Is that floppy only? (I wouldn't run this until someone who knows chimes in.. :-)
Or might an "install dh0:" help?

Not sure that will make a difference, it's been more than 20 years since I've used that command and don't really remember it too well.. ;-)

Good luck.

desiv

[Amiga1992]

I wouldn't use "install" first (dunno if it works, I thought it was just for floppies), as I said, make an S directory and a startup-sequence file to see if it's booting.

[idrougge]

"Install" is only for floppies. On hard drives, you select whether a partition is bootable by checking a box in HDToolbox (or your equivalent).

[desiv]

Originally Posted by idrougge

"Install" is only for floppies. On hard drives, you select whether a partition is bootable by checking a box in HDToolbox (or your equivalent).

Yeah, I wasn't sure..
I've read both (to and not to use it on HDs) from googling...

desiv

[iowtheme]

Hi All thank for all your help

Now resolve the problem



the problem was my upgade A500 with 9Mb Ram and Rom switcher



so swap to my std A500



Boot for DF0 with wb 2.0 install and that waller it shows up DH0 so it have wb 1.3 install but not full wb 1.3 how update to WB2.0 and it work fine full boot COOL.

Now find out way my upgarde A500 wouldn't work the Ram on the 68000 processor had a jumper move their jumper and it now fully boot as well
.
.
.

[iowtheme]

So Guys my next question is the hard drive what in it is only 45mb I would like to upgrade it . from information I found out can go up to 200mb
Can anyone help me locate a 200Mb drive or any other option to increase its size or is there any adapters can add to the device. I thought I asked this question to fine out if it is possible
.
.
.

[iowtheme]

I have seen this on ebay SCSI2SD v5 - 3.5" bundle with 8GB SanDisk microSD at £75.14 inc pnp this seems to be extreme amount of money for this adapter, it look like im gonna have to find a hard drive

[emufan]

kipper2k made a mem + ide board for the a500/a2000.
website is down atm - but on webarchive you can see the device.

[desiv]

Originally Posted by iowtheme

I have seen this on ebay SCSI2SD v5 - 3.5" bundle with 8GB SanDisk microSD at £75.14 inc pnp this seems to be extreme amount of money for this adapter, it look like im gonna have to find a hard drive

Is that SCSI or MFM???
If it's MFM (8-bit IDE), your options are much much smaller..

Hopefully SCSI..
Then you can just raid some old 68k Macintoshes.. They loved SCSI hard drives..

desiv