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- From: aac567@agora.ulaval.ca (SYLVAIN PARENT)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: A3000 Problems
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 15:16:47 GMT
- Organization: Universite Laval
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- > Simo Naukkarinen (simo@tna.nullnet.fi) wrote:
- >> I've got a strange problem. I own an A3000, and I've got a 340MB
- >> Quantum Prodrive hard disk in it. I'm using soft Kickstart 40.70.
- >> When the system is loaded and I reset it from the keyboard (Ctrl+
- >> Amiga+Amiga) the machine will blank the screen, then flash the
- >> white screen as it should do, but after this event it just starts
- >> (obviously) reading data from SCSI-bus and gets stuck. This also
- >> happens if I go to boot menu, after which the system boots up
- >> again (on KS3.x) and gets stuck. Any ideas?
- >> I must also mention that this didn't happen on another hard disk
- >> (under KS3.x) I tried, and if I boot using soft Kickstart 37.175
- >> keyboard reset and boot menu work all right, even if that Quantum
- >> LPS 340MB drive is attached.
-
- > I know an another harddisk that works OK with this machine. Unfortunately it
- > crashed and I'm waiting for a new one. This current drive is from my old
- > machine. Could it have something to do with SCSI-terminators?
-
- Right on ! I solved this problem last night ! It's a SCSI termination
- problem. Don't look at the terminators, look at the cable ! Mine has
- 4 connectors on, and the drives were connected at both ends, and it was
- hooked to the 3000 by one of the middle connectors:
-
- HD I CONT I FREE I I HD I CD
- I I I I I
- I--------I-------I-----I I
- I I
- I-------------------------------I
-
- |<----- internal --------->|<----- external ---->|
-
- If you look carefully at this diagram, you'll see that the way this
- cable was connected introduced a Y division on the SCSI bus, which is a
- thing to avoid (so I read in a posting from another group).
- The solution is simply to connect the SCSI internal cable to the 3000 by
- one of the ends, and moving the other internal units on the other end of
- the cable, therefore removing the Y in the chain. Be careful to put one
- device to the other end of the cable (dont let this connector free) because
- this will eliminate unwanted reflexions. Termination must then be left on both
- ends of the whole SCSI chain (internal + external) that is :
-
- CONT (NT) FREE HD (NT) HD (T) CD (T)
- I I I I I
- I I I I I
- I----------I----------I---------I I
- I I
- I----------------------------------------------I
-
- |<--------- internal ------------------->|<---- external ->|
-
- (where NT: no termination
- T: termination )
-
- My guess is that 3.x scsi software is fine-tuned and much more sensible
- to badly configured SCSI busses than 2.x was.
-
- Hope this helps...
- Sylvain Parent
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