commodorejohn
Veteran Member
I recently acquired a Seagate ST351 IDE/XT hard drive for my 1000RL. It arrived this past weekend in seemingly good condition - it spins up and rattles the head around like any other drive, no squealing or anything. However, when I plugged it into the RL, the computer got past its memory test and came up with "Disk Boot Error;" this seems to be some sort of trouble with the floppy drive, since it repeats the message when I remove and reinsert a floppy disk. Doubly odd, since it's set to boot from the internal ROM anyway, not the floppy or the hard disk. When I unplug the drive, it goes back to functioning as normal, but as soon as I plug it back in, no boot. I looked in the user manual, but I can't find any mention of any settings that need to be changed for hard-drive installation. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?