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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!de351
- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Problems w/ HD controller
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 22:27:49 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: de351@freenet2.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
- Message-ID: <4juu15$484@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
- References: <4jjqgg$adi@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <316281F4.266B@ford.com>
- Reply-To: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet2.carleton.ca
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- > Oliver Breitwieser wrote:
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- > The second one ist an ALF 3 Controller using its own software. The
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- > When I, for example, use HDTools and I enter the device into the .info
- > File the only button which is activated is HELP which actually doesn't
- > help at all :-(
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- Try again with:
- SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=ALF.device
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- It would work with either ADOS 2.1 or 3.1 HDToolBox for your first HD at
- ID=0. There is a bit of problems finding the other drives.
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- Personally I think the 2.1 HDToolBox is very unfriendly and can be very
- dangerous. What's the deal with drives have changed ? The ALF software
- deals with it just fine - no need to save anything even if you change the
- SCSI chain and swap ID around.
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- I recommend RDPrep (available on Aminet), it works fine with the ALF drivers
- and do not insist on
- silly partitions. If you need to do a low level format, you'll still need
- to use the ALF software. RDPrep don't have a low level format option.
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- "Chris \"Big Kahuna\" Rampson" (crampson@ford.com) writes:
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- > I think your controller needs to be able to use the C= RDB standard. I
- > have no idea if the ALF does this.
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- Yes, it does. It works with everything I throw at it so far.
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- > _/_/_/ _/ _/ Chris "Big Kahuna"
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- BTW I am still using ALF2 drivers (Ver. 2.6 with a few small patches).
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- K. C. Lee
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- "Chris \"Big Kahuna\" Rampson" (crampson@ford.com) writes:
- > Oliver Breitwieser wrote:
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- >> Hello world,
- >> I haver two different SCSI HD controllers which both won't run with
- >> Shapeshifter, HDTools and the PD Dosserv Program for the Bridgeboard,
- >> which is able to use a DOS partition instead of this stupid FileDisk.
- >> It seems to be a problem of the SCSI device.
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- >> The first controller is a Supra Controller with Boil 3 software. The
- >> SCSI device is named BOIL.device. The software company is called FSE.
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- >> The second one ist an ALF 3 Controller using its own software. The
- >> SCSI device is called ALF.device and the company is named BSC
- >> Bueroautomation.
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- >> When I, for example, use HDTools and I enter the device into the .info
- >> File the only button which is activated is HELP which actually doesn't
- >> help at all :-(
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- > I think your controller needs to be able to use the C= RDB standard. I
- > have no idea if the ALF does this. The Supra "should" be able to do
- > this, but what is this boil stuff anyway? Never heard of boil or ALF.
- > Why not use the supra.device?
- >
- > --
- > Owner and wielder of Occam's razor! (Committed to regula philosophandi)
- >
- > _/_/_/ _/ _/ Chris "Big Kahuna"
- > Rampson M.S.
- > _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/ crampson@ford.com
- > _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ NO cutdowns, flames or
- > insults
- > _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ NO such thing as a stupid
- > question!
- > _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ "NOT an OFFICIAL FORD
- > spokesperson"
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