Help to recover my Falcon

[jvernet]

Hi,

A while back, I bought the upgrade for HDDRIVER from 7.04 to 8.23. Yesterday (only), I made the upgrade on my falcon. And I have a big problem....
My Falcon have 2 disks, one IDE and one SCSI. The IDE disk is the boot one (partitions C and D), SCSI is E and F.

After the upgrade, I lost the IDE disk.... My Falcon boot HDDRIVER from the IDE disks, but do not show anymore this disk, only SCSI disks.... When I try to modify HDDRIVER configuration (I may have forgotten the IDE parameters...), it do not show anymore my IDE disk...

One thing: my falcon do not have a floppy disk, the floppy controller is dead. I'm using a ZIP drive do exchange data to my Falcon.

How can i get ride of this problem ???


Thanks,

J.V.

[uweseimet]

HI Jerome!

Hmm, this is is not so easy to solve, but this might work: Install HDDRIVER on your ZIP drive and ensure that device IDE 0 is enabled. Also ensure that HDDRCONF.CPX is installed on the ZIP boot drive. Boot your Falcon with the ZIP drive connected and the IDE drive's power supply disconnected. Booting should be successful and you can access the ZIP drive.
Now reconnect the IDE drive's power supply. Run HDDRUTIL's ID check and ensure that the IDE drive is detected. Open HDDRCONF.CPX and trigger a bus rescan. HDDRIVER's internal SCSI driver will now add the IDE drive to its device list. Any software which can access hard disk drives via the SCSI driver software interface should now be able to access the IDE drive.
You now need a tool that can make use of the SCSI driver and can modify data on the IDE drive. DISKUS (available for free on my homepage, but only a German version) can do that. Diamond Edge might also have SCSI driver support.
Mark the root sector of the IDE drive as not being executable. A special function for this purpose is offered by DISKUS, but simply changing the last byte of the root sector to a different value will also work without affecting any other data.
Reboot. Now TOS should not try to boot from the IDE drive anymore because it is not bootable anymore, but will boot from the ZIP drive. You should now have access to the IDE drive's partitions again and can fix your setup.
Hope that helps!

Best regards

Uwe

[uweseimet]

I just found that there may be an alternative: After reconnecting your IDE drive start a hard disk driver *without SCSI driver support* from your ZIP drive, e.g. AHDI. This drive should now detect the IDE drive and reassign the partitions. C: should now be the first partition on your IDE drive, open a new window for C: (or press Escape) in order to verify that.

[jvernet]

Will try that, thanks Uwe !

Eh... May be it's feature you can add to HDDRIVER.... In fact, a way to disable boot from any device detetected by HDDRUTIL.APP.

Thanks for your help.

[jvernet]

Thanks Uwe for your help. In fact, what I did:
- start with the IDE drive connected (without, the falcon do not start at all).
- SCSI disk are C and D
- launch AHDI, wich chown IDE as C and D and SCSI as E and F disk
- start HDDRUTIL, use "Autoconfiguring"
- install again HDDRRIVER. It chown in the dialog box only the IBM SCSI drive as C and D BUT it's not the SCSI drive, it's the IDE one.
Reboot, got it. Thanks !
I'm happy. Currently backuping all drive to a JAZZ.

May be some improvment to do here ?

Thanks a lot, my falcon is happy. Except that it do not have floppy disk nor VGA display, don't know why...

[jvernet]

Is it normal that formatting a JAZZ 1Gb take more than 2hour (in fact, doesn't look like it ever finished ??).

As there is no progress bar, it's hard to see if hanged or working !

[uweseimet]

2 hours are very long, indeed. On the other hand, if the format process terminates without an error everything is fine and 2 hours are probably normal for a 1 GB JAZ.
It's not possible to display a progress bar, by the way. Formatting a SCSI drive is a single SCSI command, which either terminates successfully or not. There is no way to inquire any progress information while the command is running.

[jvernet]

about 4 hours later: not yet finished. You're right, even after shuting down the Falcon, the Jazz drive still continue to "do something". I do not know what...

No matter, I found another Jazz and was able to make a whole backup of this Falcon.

It's an Afterburner040 falcon, with Nemesis, and HDDRIVER works pretty well on it.

Jerome

[jvernet]

One last thing: what can I do to make HDDRUTIL not speak german when used under MagiC ??

[uweseimet]

You could read the README file, for instance .