🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi.

I have been attempting to get a friends old A500 up and running after
they dropped the A590 disk module when moving it from one room to
another. The 20Mb Seagate disk did not survive the incident.

The A500's setup was

A500 base unit
A590 HD (20 Mb Seagate scsi)
1.3 Rom
1Mb ram
AT-ONCE Vortex 286 Emuator (verison 2.2)

The problems I currently face are

1. I installed a spare 100Mb Quantum disk I had gathering dust, to replace
   the damaged 20Mb Seagate. I used the 1.3 HDTOOLBOX to partition the disk,
   which seemed to work ok. I then attempted to format the partitions. The 
   formatting went ok until it tried to "Initialise" the disk, whereapon it
   states that the disk was not a DOS disk.

   I tried using the supplied HD-PREP script, but all that did was to blow 
   away the partitions I had setup and configure the disk as one big partition.
   The same error occured when I attempted to format the partition, it would
   fail when it tried to initialiase the partition.

   I tried a Quantum 235Mb disk with the same results.

   Anyone have any idea's about why this is happening? Am I missing something
   really obvious?

2. I decided to try replacing the 1.3 rom with a 2.0 rom from my old A2000, to see
   if it was a 1.3 related problem. The 2.0 rom went in ok, and the A500 powered up
   fine, and displayed the insert a disk animation. I then reconnected the A590 and
   powered up. I booted from a 2.1 Install disk ran HDToolbox and checked the HD 
   partitions. I then tried formatting the paritions again. This time it worked, the
   partitions were formatted fine. I was able to install WB 2.1 and then restore their
   data. 

   The problem is that the AT-ONCE 286 Emulator does not seem to work with KS/WB 2.1.
   The version of the AT-ONCE s/w is 2.2. I have had a quick look on Aminet to see if
   there were any updates, but I have not been able to find out anything yet.

   Does anyone know if the AT-ONCE 286 emulator will work with KS/WB 2.1, or if there
   is a newer version than 2.2?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, email preffered.

regards

Craig

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