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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: EMBL-EBI.ac.uk!sterk
- From: sterk@EMBL-EBI.ac.uk (Peter Sterk)
- Subject: Apollo A1230 SCSI problems
- Sender: news@ebi.ac.uk (Mr news)
- Message-ID: <Dpwr3o.JGy@ebi.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:33:23 GMT
- Reply-To: sterk@EMBL-EBI.ac.uk (Peter Sterk)
- Organization: European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL) - UK
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- I've had an Apollo A1230 Accelerator + built-in SCSI since last summer
- and have had a few problems with it, mostly to do with autobooting.
- Recently, my Quantum Lightning 730S (ID 0) hardly boots at all, and
- worse, it gets corrupted. Also my second hd, an old Quantum 40S gives
- lots of read and write errors. The trouble is, when it works, there
- seems to be no trouble at all, but sometimes after resetting, I can't
- boot from the disks anymore, sometimes the computer doesn't even see the
- drives. I've checked the cabling, termination, swapped devices around
- (there's also a CDROM drive attached to the chain), tried a different
- PSU, to no avail. If I switch off the SCSI autoboot dip switch, the
- Amiga boots normally from an internal IDE drive. SCSItester says the
- harddisks are okay, I've tried them on a GVP controller as well, and
- then they work fine, so my conclusion is that the SCSI controller on
- the Apollo must be the culprit. One thing I haven't tried is active
- termination at one end of the SCSI chain, but after spending lots of
- money on AFS to add security to my partitions I don't want to spend
- more money on something that maybe doesn't solve the problem.
- Before I get back to the supplier (again), it would help if people could
- share their experiences with me. I know that quite a few people have
- reported problems with the SCSI controller and software in particular,
- but I must admit that it has worked reasonably well for some time for me.
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Peter
-