| From: | Nick Lamburn |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 15:19:55 |
| Subject: | Re: A3000 SCSI hard disk problems |
Hi Don
I have sent another mail with more detail, so maybe that'll aid somewhat
more....
>> Assuming it to be a simple procedure, I removed the old 40MB Quantum
>> drive and replaced it with the 1gig Fijitsu mechanism. Made sure the
>> blue end of the ribbon cable was on pin 1 and plugged in the powwer;
>> and switchwed on the A3000. The super kickstart menu appears and i
>> click on the 2.x floppy option and duly insert the superkickstart
>> disk. Then eventually i get the feed me a disk screen. This is
>> Kickstart 2.04, 37.175. I then insert the Install 2.1 diskette. Go to
>> HDToolBox; but no drives it says are attached!!
>
> Do you have anything else connected to the SCSI?
Nothing, just the hard disk, and nothing on the external connector.
> If the drive was previously used on an Amiga, it shouldn't need any
> jumpers changing unless there is an ID conflict with another drive on
> the chain. Normally you can move a drive from one Amiga to another and
> it just works. (Try that on Windows).
Well it's giving me problem here. One thing that could be a problem is that
it was used on a AmigaOS 3.x machine, would AmigaOS 2.x as on this A3000 be
able to understand it? Could it be that this is the problem?
> Do a web search for the model number and you may find a downloadable
> manual showing the jumpers.
I have founs details of all the jumopers and have adjusted them accordingly.
Note that the machine won't even boot currently to the superkickstart menu,
where as before on the default settings it did, but either way, the Amiga
doesn't recognise or doesn't like the hard disk.
> Some A3000s have early and unreliable SCSI chips. These can be updated.
I thought all A3000s were shipped with these beta chips, and i also thought
it was removable media drives that caused the problems, not a static media
like hard disks.
> Check that your HDToolbox is set for scsi.device and not for some other
> device. (tooltypes in icon)
It is indeed set to (in the case here) scsi.device, SCSI Mounter shows
nothing as well.
> I've known drives prepped with GVP software to refuse to work on other
> Amigas.
But would this cause the no bootup at all problem?
Thanks for the valued advice! :)
Regards
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