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- From: moongie@xnet.com (Michael Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: >>> HELP! Problem with FastLane Z3 SCSI-2 <<<
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 20:35:59 GMT
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-
- >(Excuse me for my poor english: I'm a french canadian!)
-
- >Hi,
-
- > I have recently bought a Phase 5's FastLane Z3 SCSI-2 Zorro-3
- >board for my Amiga 4000 computer. It's a used board, but it seem in
- >perfect state. I need this board to replace my old Oktagon 2008 SCSI-2
- >Zorro-2 board. But the FastLane doesn't work, and I can't figure what
- >is going wrong. The z3scsi.device version is 5.820.
-
- > First of all, here is the specification of my computer system:
-
- > Amiga 4000/040 running at 50mhz:
- > Ç 2 meg Chip and 24 meg Fast RAM;
- > Ç Workbench V3.0 (Kickstart V39.106, Workbench V39.29);
- > Ç Super Buster revision 11;
- > Ç 3640 revision 3.1 (with U209 version -02 and U103 74FCT244).
-
- > There is a Sonnet Technologies's Doubler-4000 68040/50mhz on
- > the 3640: but with or without the Doubler-4000, the problems
- > with the FastLane are the same. It doesn't seem to change anything.
-
- > Devices:
- > Ç Seagate 340meg IDE hard-drive connected to the IDE port of the
- > Amiga;
- > Ç Seagate Hawk 1.06gig SCSI-2 Fast hard-drive connected to the
- > Oktagon board;
- > Ç Iomega SCSI-2 ZipDrive connected to the Oktagon board.
-
- > Boards:
- > Ç Alfa Data's Oktagon 2008 SCSI-2 Zorro-2 (oktagon.device V6.6);
- > Ç Utilities Unlimited's Emplant "SERIAL" Zorro-2;
- > Ç Phase 5's CyberVision 64 with 4meg DRAM Zorro-3;
- > Ç Phase 5's FastLane Z3 Zorro-3 (z3scsi.device V5.820) with 8meg of RAM.
- >
- > The software used to install the SCSI devices are: Advanced System
- >& Software's SCSIConfig V1.6 and UnitControl V1.5, Commodore's HDToolBox
- >V39.12, Alpha Data's HDInstTools V2.15.
-
- > I have tried several configuration of jumpers setting, including the
- >"Auto Enable Synchronous Transfer", "Slow Cable Mode" and "Slow Inquiry
- >Mode". I don't have any SIMMs in the FastLane Z3 SIMM sockets for the
- >moment.
-
- > I want to replace my Oktagon 2008 board with the FastLane Z3. The
- >FastLane Z3's users manual specify that the board work well on
- >revision/11 buster chip and "For board version 3.1, with U209 at
- >version -02 you will need a 74FCT244 clock driver chip.". So all
- >seem to be ok here.
-
- > First, I try to install my ZipDrive on the FastLane Z3 (SCSI ID #5
- >Terminating). First of all, the old Oktagon's RDB on ZipDisk was too
- >short for the FastLane... It seem to need more than 4kb. Second, I
- >can't format the ZipDisk with FastLane Z3! It make my computer crash
- >after formating the first cylinders... Why? So I format my ZipDisk
- >with the extended RDB on my Oktagon, and then reconnect the ZipDrive
- >to the FastLane Z3...
-
- > It work, but it's very unstable: I can't format or I can't erase a
- >lot of files on the ZipDisk without crashing my computer. I also often
- >get a system requester with a message like these:
-
- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
- >Attention! Serious Error!
-
- >Unexpected Phasechange
- >SCSIReset and back to asynchon mode.
- >All Units with pending jobs are replied
- >with a Phaseerror
-
- >Unit=5
- >Interrupt=10 Status=87 Sequence=C4
- >RealSplitBuffer=$0 SplitBuffer=$0 SliptBufferLength=$0
- >CopyBufferLength=0$ SplitAddress=$0 SplitLength=$0
- >DMA_Address=$711B002 DMA_Address_PRE=$0 DMA_Address_POST=$0
- >DMA_Address_ALIGN_BUFFER=$58B0 DMA_Length=$86 DMA_Length_MID=$0
- >DMA_Length_PRE=$0 DMA_Length_POST=$0
- >DMA_Write=$0 DMA_Transfer=$0 Phase=$0 SCSIDirekt=$0
- >Polling=$0 Polling_Next=$0 Identify=$80 SynchronMsg=$0
- >SelectCommand=$41 AlreadyTransfered=$0 SplitTransferSplitted=$0
- >SCSIDirectMode=$0 Oddread=$0
- >MsgList=$7019C18 MsgList.Head=$7018CC8 MsgList.Tail=$7018CC8
- >SyncOffset=$0 SyncPeriod=$5 Config3=$8
- ><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
- >Attention! Serious Error!
-
- >Illegal Command State of the controller
- >Unit=248
- >Interrupt=40 Status=80 Sequence=C4
- >RealSplitBuffer=$F8079A SplitBuffer=$F80A66 SplitBufferLength=$F80A2A
- >CopyBufferLength=$F80A2C SplitAddress=$F80A2E SplitLength=$0
- >DMA Address=$F80B50 DMA Address PRE=$F80A34 DMA Address POST=$F80A36
- >DMA Address ALIGN BUFFER=$F80A38 DMA Length=$F80A3A DMA Length MID=$F80A3C
- >DMA Length PRE=$F80A3E DMA Length POST=$F80A40
- >DMA Write=$0 DMA Transfer=$A Phase=$0 SCSIDirekt=$F8
- >Polling=$A Polling Next=$46 Identify=$0 SynchronMsg=$F8
- >SelectCommand=$A AlreadyTransfered=$48 SplitTransferSplitted=$0
- >SCSIDirectMode=$F8 Oddread=$A
- >MsgList=$54 MsgList.Head=$F80A4C MsgList.Tail=$F80A50
- >SyncOffset=$0 SyncPeriod=$F8 Config3=$A
- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
-
- > And when I try to use the ZipDrive with the MacIntosh II emulator
- >ShapeShifter V3.4, it does not reconize the MacOS and PC formatted
- >ZipDisk! Why? Why can't I use my ZipDrive if it's plugged in
- >FastLane Z3?
- >
- > And finally, I can't get my Seagate's Hawk hard-drive (SCSI ID #0) to
- >boot on the FastLane. And when I try to log in my hard-drive whith
- >SCSIConfig, it tell that "SECTORS*HEADS*CYLINDERS" overpass the disk's
- >block capacity. If I force to mount the Hawk hard-drive, it seem to be
- >unvalidated and it crash the computer when try to write something on
- >it...
-
- > What am I doing wrong? How can I get my FastLane Z3 working well?
- >Why I can't format any disk with this FastLane Z3? How can I fix the
- >disk's RDBs? Please help me.
-
- > Please answer me (in french or in english) as soon as possible by
- >EMail.
-
- > Thank you very much! Regards,
-
- >Francis Labrie
- >EMail: fb691875@er.uqam.ca
-
- Francis,
-
- I got these phase errors with my a4000 3640 rev3.1 and my fastlane. I
- got a rom upgrade 5.997 which helped but the biggest help was
- discovering that one of the old z2 boards was conflicting with the
- Fastlane. It was my LIVE! video digitizer. I have had to take that
- completely out of my A4000 and then it worked. If I remember
- correctly, re-arranging the order of the boards may have helped in
- some combinations too.
-
- I got the rom upgrade when there was a US support division for
- Macrosystems. I am unsure how you would get it now.
-
- Hope that helps some.
-
-
- Michael
-
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