| From: | Sean Courtney |
| Date: | 3 Jul 2001 at 02:25:40 |
| Subject: | Arright, what's going on here? [SCSI update] |
I recently posted about my problems in getting a SCSI hard drive to
work. To review, here's what happened...
I ordered an 18-gig SCSI-3 hard drive. The manual says that it comes
WITHOUT termination, and it doesn't even say how to terminate the drive
but says that the SCSI cabling and the SCSI controller take care of
termination.
Problem: allegedly the Cyberstorm SCSIs don't have termination.
What happened was I configured the hard drive so that it was unit 1.
PFS3's HDInstTools recognized the following three items on
cybppc.device: 17.9 gig hard drive on unit 1, Yamaha CD writer on unit
3, and Zip drive on unit 6. Perfect!
Tried to partition the hard drive. Upon saving the changes the
busypointer wouldn't go away. EVER. Rebooted, tried again, got the same
thing. Reset again, only it wouldn't boot up. At all. I got the initial
dark gray screen I always get, then it flickered, and that's
it...nothing further. Couldn't get the early-boot screen, couldn't get
the Cyberstorm settings screen. Nothing.
"It's your SCSI setup, you fool!" you all cried. So I spent $128 on the
following items: one internal active SCSI-3 terminator, one external
active SCSI-3 terminator, and one MD50-to-SCSI3 adaptor so I could use
the external SCSI-3 terminator.
My revised setup looks like this:
SCSI ribbon is split in a "V," with one port on one end of the V and
the rest of the ports on the remainder of the V.
The internal SCSI terminator is connected to the single-port end. The
hard drive is connected to one of the ports on the other end of the
cable.
Connected directly to the external SCSI port via a SCSI-3-to-DB25
converter is my external Zip 100 drive, unterminated, set to unit 6.
Daisy-chained to my Zip drive is my external Yamaha CRW4416SXZ. The
cable between the Zip and the Yamaha is DB25 on one end, MD50 on the
other. One expert on this list advised me to turn OFF the built-in
termination on the Yahama and attach an active SCSI-3 terminator to the
other port on the CD drive. Did that.
Still no luck. No boot. No nothing.
I tried countless different things. One time I removed the Zip and the
Yamaha [AND the INTERNAL terminator] and just attached the external
SCSI-3 terminator directly to the external SCSI port. The SCSI hard
drive whirred away for a few minutes, then the access light on the
drive went out, then the Amiga continued to boot! WOOHOO!!!
Or...should I say..."Uhh...woo-hoo?"
Why? Because I couldn't do that again. Immediately I turned off the
Amiga and reconnected everything and again could get nothing. I again
tried my remove-everything-but-the-external-SCSI3-terminator trick, but
it didn't work.
So...what should I do?
Once again, here's my setup:
- A4000 Power Tower MKII [the one with the Mediator-ready
daughterboard]
- 2 MB chip RAM, 144 MB fast RAM
- Picasso IV graphics card
- SunRize AD516 and Prelude sound cards
- 2 IDE hard drives running on the scsi.device
- GVP I/O Extender
- One mouse, one Sega Genesis-compatible game pad
- ProMIDI interface
- Standard Amiga 4000 keyboard
- Cyberstorm 060/PPC 233 -- manufactured not by phase5 but DCE.
HELP!!!
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