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From: Francis Labrie <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: >>> HELP!  Problem with FastLane Z3 SCSI-2 <<<
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 00:13:34 +0000
Organization: UniversitΘ du QuΘbec α MontrΘal
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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:  [e-mail]