home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: compass-da.com!garthc
- From: garthc@compass-da.com (Garth Corral)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000/A3640 SCSI problems
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 18:03:09 GMT
- Organization: Compass Design Automation
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4kgt4u$h8f@inbox.compass-da.com>
- References: <4jp5k9$m9h@inbox.compass-da.com> <151353@cup.portal.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: broadway.compass-da.com
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
-
- Sean - Curtin (squirrel@cup.portal.com) wrote:
- :
- : Don't know if it's related, but I recently worked on a guy's 3000 where
- : he installed a Progressive Peripherals 040 (basic 040 card. No onboard RAM,
- : no onboard SCSI.) and his hard drive disappeared. It paid no attention to
- : the RDB. The bootscreen drives list had no trace of it. The hard drive did,
- : however, mount manually, and did show up normally in 030 mode. Fortunately,
- : he also had a 2091 lying around and we were able to set up a boot drive off
- : of that and transfer control to the manually mounted motherboard SCSI drive.
- :
- This sounds exactly like my problem. Unfortunately, I don't have a
- 2091 lying around. I would hate to have to resort to adding a SCSI
- card to fix this. Surely these can't be the only two examples of this
- problem. Has anyone else run into this? How did you resolve it?
-
- : Also make sure you've got Set040, SetPatch 40.16, and 68040.library 37.30.
- :
- Affirmative. I have checked these.
- For the record, I have received a few responses suggesting SCSI
- termination as the culprit. I checked the motherboard and indeed
- there were no terminating resistors in the sipp sockets. I added
- resistors from the original 52MB Quantum drive but to no avail. I am
- still experiencing this problem.
-
- : ...Sean.
-
- Thanks again,
- Garth.
-