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I-Hate-Spam <I-Hate-Spam@att.net> wrote:

> If anybody can solve this problem, I would be GRATEFUL!
> 
> My friend recently gave me his Amiga 2000 computer. It has a harddrive
> evidently hooked up to it. However, when I turn on the computer, it ONLY
> boots from the floppy drive.
> 
> The ONLY disk I have is workbench 2.1. When I get to the desktop it does NOT
> show the harddrive.
> 
> Is there someway to get the harddrive to work? I am 99.99% sure it works
> fine -- but might need a driver or something.  the problem is -- even if I
> download the amiga driver on my ibm comuter, I'm not sure how to get the
> file onto the amiga computer since I have yet to find an ibm program that
> will allow me to format/copy a disc in amiga format.
> 
> ANY HELP WOULD BE ENORMOUSLY APPRECIATED.

You don't tell us what Drive interface you're using, which makes help a
little difficult.

If it's an A2091, or any newer autoconfiguring card then either there's
something wrong with it, or the drive hasn't been properly partitioned
and formatted.

If, however, it's an older card, such as an A2090 (fairly common in
older machines) you will need a boot floppy with the driver for the card
on it, and, if it doesn't support RDB (the 2090 doesn't) you will also
need a mountlist (or the files that we use these days, I forget what
they're called...) for the drive in question.

For getting the driver to your Amiga from a PC (if needed), you would
either have to set up crossdos to read PC formatted 720k floppies (tough
on a floppy only machine) set up a serial transfer between the two (but
how do you get the transfer program onto the Amiga?) or buy a catweasel
card for your PC. Or, hope a friendly Amiga user knows what disks you
need, and can send a copy through the post...

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