| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 1 May 2001 at 00:21:38 |
| Subject: | Re: How I love my SCSI life.... |
Andrew Crowe said,
>>>> I added a 500mb SCSI internal hard drive that used to be in my
>>>> wife's old work computer. I put the thing in, booted up, and ran
>>>> HDInstTools to attempt to partition the thing. The Amiga reset
>>>> itself before I could partition, and all of a sudden it wouldn't
>>>> boot. When I try to boot with the SCSI HD installed, my main IDE
> note "IDE"
I saw it first time.
>>> Well, it can't be the drives clashing as they're on different
>>> interfaces,
>>
>> It could be a SCSI ID clash. Without a jumper diagram for the drive,
>> there's no way of knowing what ID it's set to. Try the manufacturers
>> web site, or change the IDs on the Zip and CDRW to make sure there's
>> no clash.
> Um, I can't see why the scsi ID clash would affect an IDE drive
Who mentioned the IDE drive? I was thinking of the two other SCSI drives
mentioned in the original mail.
>> You don't say wherein the chain the drive is. If it's in the middle
>> it should not be terminated, if it's at the end, have you removed
>> whatever termination was there before?
> Maybe, except that drive causing the problems isn't in the /SCSI/
> chain ;)
The IDE drive works when there's no SCSI drive and stops working when
the SCSI drive is connected? That sounds like a problem caused by the
SCSI drive to me. No one suggested that the IDE drive was *causing" the
problem. The failure of the SCSI controller to initialise, which could
be caused by either of the two problems I mentioned, could prevent the
IDE interface ever getting a look in.
Cheers
Neil
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