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SCSIMounter 2.0
===============
Removable media partition mounter for Kickstart 2.0 or higher.
Refer to 'SCSIMounter.guide' for an AmigaGuide version of this
document.
WANTED: Someone who translates this document to German!
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Versions
--------
2.02 - Terrible bug fixed which caused SCSIMounter to fail on 68000
machines.
2.00 - SCSIMounter is a commodity now
bi-lingual user interface
1.30 - MASK tooltype added
1.20 - Minor changes to the CLI interface. New tool type 'NOUNMOUNT'
1.10 - ReadArgs() CLI Interface added
1.04 - Now works with beta kickstarts (V 36)
Keyboard equivalents for everything (including list view)
Layout bug fixed
No funtional changes.
1.03 - Made more tolerant :-)
1.02 - Fix for gvpscsi.device (GVP Series II) added.
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Disclaimer
----------
SCSIMounter may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes only.
The entire risk as to the quality and performance of this program is
with you.
The author assumes no responsibility or liability whatsoever with
respect to your use or inability to use of this software.
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Purpose
-------
Most owners of removable media SCSI drives are stuck with the problem
that their software doesn't handle disk changes correctly.
For example, the current Commodore implementation doesn't mount the
partitions on a removable media SCSI drive (e.g. SyQuest or Ricoh)
when there was no cartridge in the drive at boot time.
Even worse, after another cartridge with a different Rigid Disk Block
(i.e. a different partition table) has been inserted, the system
gets totally confused and reports read/write errors when trying
to access the device which can lead to loss of important data on
the cartridge.
Until now, the only possibility to work around this problem was to
reboot the system every time a new cartridge has been inserted.
SCSIMounter allows you to mount and unmount partitions without rebooting
the machine. It sports a nice 2.0-style point-and-click user interface
that makes handling removable media a piece of cake.
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Secondary use
-------------
SCSIMounter can also be used to mount partitions that have intentionally
not been mounted (e.g. the wb_1.3: partition on an A3000 when running
under 2.0). You don't have to create a mountlist for it!
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Requirements
------------
· Any Amiga with a SCSI host adaptor that supports the Commodore
RDB (Rigid Disk Block) and 'SCSI Direct' standards.
· Kickstart 2.0 or higher (version 37.175 preferred)
The program has been tested on an A3000 with Commodore's scsi.device
and on an A2500 with a Microbotics HardFrame (HardFrame.device) but
I see no reason why it shouldn't work on any other host adaptor.
The program may be of no use for owners of certain GVP controllers
which support removable media correctly (Though not all GVP software
might do so).
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Before you begin
----------------
First, determine the name of the device driver of your hard disk
controller card.
Examples of popular controllers and their devices:
manufacturer/controller device
--------------------------------------------------
Commodore A590/A2091/A3000 scsi.device
Old GVP scsidev.device
GVP Series II gvpscsi.device
Supra SupraDrive harddisk.device
Advanced Storage Systems Nexus nexus.device
Microbotics HardFrame HardFrame.device
ICD AdSCSI icddisk.device
IVS Trumpcard Professional ivs_scsi.device
BSC ALF2/3 ALF.device
BSC Oktagon 2008 Oktagon.device
--------------------------------------------------
Click once one the SCSIMounter icon and select 'Information' from the
'Icons' menu.
Add or change the following tool type:
DEVICE=Name_of_your_scsi_device_here
for example if you use a HardFrame controller write:
DEVICE=HardFrame.device
Don't add path names here, only the name of the device is required.
Take care to capitalize the device name correctly (exec device names
are case sensitive!)
NOTE
SCSIMounter will not work with the Commodore A2090(A) controller card
because this product does not support Commodore's own 'SCSI direct' and
'RDB' standards properly.
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Start SCSIMounter
-----------------
SCSIMounter can be used either from Workbench or from the CLI.
* Workbench use
Double click on the SCSIMounter icon. After a short time, a window
with a listview and three buttons will appear (assuming CX_POPUP
is set to `yes'). If the window doesn't appear several things could
have gone wrong:
· Do you use Kickstart 2.0 or higher?
· Did you specify and spell the name of your device driver correctly?
· Does your host adaptor support RDB?
· Is there any memory left on your system?
· Do you have commodities.library (supplied with Workbench 2.04)
in libs:?
Requesters will try to tell you the cause if SCSIMounter fails to run.
* CLI use
Type 'SCSIMounter gui device Name_of_your_scsi_device'
example:
1> SCSIMounter gui device HardFrame.device
If the 'gui' argument is not given, SCSIMounter will be started
in command line mode as described later in this document.
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Panels
------
1) Main panel
The main panels shows all devices connected to the SCSI port with
information about their capacity and current status. The currently
selected unit is higlighted.
UNIT - This is the unit number of a SCSI device.
Up to seven devices can be connected to the SCSI bus
DRIVE TYPE - Manufacturer and product specification
REV. - Revision of Hardware, Firmware and ROM of device
CAP. - Device capacity in Megabytes or Kilobytes
STATUS - Current Status of device. If the device is busy or
not accessable due to the lack of media (if it's a
removable media drive) the status will be set to
'not ready'
There are three 'action buttons' present:
HIDE - Put SCSIMounter to sleep. To wake it up again, use the
hotkey as specified in CX_POPKEY or the Commodities Exchange
program on you system partition. Closing the window
using its closegadget has the same effect.
UPDATE - Re-scan SCSI bus and update display
MOUNT - Mount partitions on selected drive
For every action buttons there's also a menu item with identical
function. All buttons have keyboard equivalents (marked with an
underscore in the label text). The listview can be scrolled using
the arrow up and arrow down keys on your keyboard rather than using
the mouse.
There's one important menu item that has no button equivalent:
QUIT - Quits SCSIMounter and removes it from the list of commodity
programs
2) 'Partition Selector' panel
This panel shows all available partitions and allows you to
individually mount them.
CHECKGADGETS - Determine if the particular partition should
be mounted or not.
checked: mount corresponding partition
not checked: don't mount specified partition
Other partition Information on the partition selector -
Number of Partition == keyboard equivalent
Device name of partitions
Size of partitions
Dostype (FileSystem) of partition
Examples of dostypes:
DOS0 - Old filesystem partition
DOS1 - FastFileSystem partition
UNI1 - Unix boot partition
RESV - Reserved partition
CANCEL - Go back to main panel, don't mount anything