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Short: New SCSI device for Blizzards
Uploader: gzenz@ernie.mi.uni-koeln.de (Gideon Zenz)
Author: gzenz@ernie.mi.uni-koeln.de (Gideon Zenz)
Type: biz/patch
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PURPOSE
Everybody who owns the SCSI-Kit-IV for his Blizzard accelerator, and
who owns removable drives like ZIP, streamers etc knows the problem:
Crashes, SCSI bus lockups etc, which only go away if he switches
reseletcion and removable off via UnitControl.
But who looked on Phase5`s ftp server could see a nice improvement:
there is in /pub/phase5/beta/scsi/ a new SCSI Rom 8.1 available! And
even more nice news: It`s not developed any more by Ralph Schmidt, so
there could be some improvements! And there are some: The problem
with reselection and removable has (nearly) gone away, so you finally
can use your streamer/zip/whatever without never ending crashes!
But what the hell can you do with a simple ROM image? Again pay $$
for an update, so you finally can work a bit better with your
expensive hardware?
Well, this is where SoftSCSI comes: It`s a software patch, so you can
use the new 1230scsi.device v 8.1 without any hardware changes!
USAGE & INSTALLATION
Very easy: First copy at least the files SoftSCSI and A1234.ROM of
this archive in your C: assign. Now put in the first line of your
startup-sequence this one:
C:SoftSCSI
NOTE: If you use other programs like FastEXEC, KickBlizz etc., there
is a NORES option, so you won`t have multiple resets. An example:
C:SoftSCSI NORES
C:FastEXEC
C:KickBlizz MyROM
TECHNICAL
This paragraph is for advanced users only, so don`t get mad because
you don`t understand a word :)
It`s quite a bit hacky, but it works :^) To understand it, you need to
know a bit about the autoconfig(TM) process. SoftSCSI hooks itself
right after the expansion.library in the KickTagPtr. On a reboot,
expansion.lib now configures our expansion board, the blizzard, and
the Blizzard rom itself configures the SCSI rom, if present.
Thereafter SoftSCSI initalizes the original Blizzard config area anew,
using the new scsi rom, so when the autoboot process starts, not the
original scsi.device but the new one will be called. That`s all
folks.
GREETS
I`m greeting all of the Phase5 support line, hopefully this will
relieve you a bit :-)
HISTORY
v1.0 (27-Nov-96)
- Initial release
FUTURE
- Do a Fastlane, Cyberstorm MK I and B2060 version.
DISCLAIMER
The included files "A1234.ROM" and "scsi.readme" are taken from
ftp.phase5.de and are © by Phase5 Digital Products! They aren`t in
any way modified, and just included for the comfort of the users of
SoftSCSI.
This software is subject to the "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright
Note" It is Freeware as defined in paragraph 4a. For more information
please read "AFD-COPYRIGHT" (Version 1 or higher).
AUTHOR
If you have some comments, please don`t hesitate to contactme!
Gideon Zenz
Giersbergstr. 41
53229 Bonn
GERMANY
EMail: gzenz@ernie.mi.uni-koeln.de
-Gideon Zenz, 27-Oct-96
SECURITY
If you want to be shure you have the original programs, check with
"md5sum -c SoftSCSI.readme". (md5sum is part of the PGP package), and
of cause check the integrity of this readme with PGP!
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