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- From: mbanet@netcom.com (David Waters)
- Subject: Re: IVS Vector & SCSI probs.
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- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 10:53:07 GMT
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- Don Finlay (dfinlay@iconz.co.nz) wrote:
- : I am having some trouble with my scsi controller (IVS Vector.) [...] My
- : tale of woe is as follows: An A2000 witha Vector card, two hard
- : drives, a cd rom drive and a new Zip drive added on the outside. Since
- : I added the zip I have been having odd and intermittent problems. Some
- : crashes on boot up. Some checksum errors. The loss of a couple of
- : partitions during a crash.
-
- I have a lot of unwanted experience troubleshooting the IVS SCSI network
- with two TrumpcardPros (A4000 & A3000) and a GrandSlam (A2000). I don't
- seem to recall whether the Vector was TrumpcardPro-compatible. I mention
- this because I had to upgrade the Trumpcard/GrandSlam ROMs when using
- AmigaDOS 2.1 (everything seems to work fine with AmigaDOS 3.0 on the A4000).
-
- However, what you seem to be experiencing may have nothing to do with the
- Vector itself as it may have more to do with your cables or in what order
- your SCSI devices are daisy chained. Try experimenting by switching
- devices around (while everything is powered-down, of course) and/or take
- notes while romoving then adding various combination of devices one at a
- time.
-
- Also, check your terminators!!! I recommend replacing internal
- terminators with external types whenever you use external devices!!!
-
- Don Finlay (dfinlay@iconz.co.nz) wrote:
- : An indication of what might be happening may be that I can only get
- : Hard Disk Toolbox to work by using a patch which was kindly sent me
- : from a Vector user in the U.S. All other SCSI type monitors or set up
- : programs seem to have great problems with the card.
-
- Hmmm...since you didn't mention TCUtils, the software toolkit for the
- TrumpcardPro, perhaps the Vector isn't compatible with the TrumpcardPro
- SCSI network at all - I seem to recall this being the case. Again,
- assuming that you didn't have problems until you added a new device, try
- moving things around and take notes.
-
- For example, last week I moved my system to a new office and noticed an
- intermitent problem with one of my partitions. When I went to backup my
- data, my script handled the partition on the C= (A300) controller but it
- reported checksum errors and halted when it started on the IVS network.
-
- Eventually, all I did was to re-route the cables from A2000->A3000<-A4000
- to A2000->A4000<-A3000 with a C= (Caliper) tape drive in the loop. I
- have an old (44Mb) SyQuest drive that I avoid using because it tends to
- cause problems, especially when formatting cartridges!!! :-(
-
- Don Finlay (dfinlay@iconz.co.nz) wrote:
- : I also can not get at the WB3.1 boot up options by holding down both
- : mouse buttons.
-
- FWIW, I had to disable the autoboot option on the Trumpcard in my A3000
- and use the internal C= (2091) controller to select AmigaDOS or UNIX on a
- drive containing boot partitions for both. I seem to recall doing this
- because the TrumpcardPro prevented boot options for the A2091 from
- appearing. Also, consider *WHERE* your partition is booting from. I try
- to avoid booting from removable partitions primarily due to "VooDoo"
- problems with the SyQuest.
-
- David "SCSI problems can make you superstitious!" Waters
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