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- From: paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr)
- Subject: Re: GVP Combo board not recognizing 870meg SCSI on cold boot.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.111841.23592@walter.cray.com>
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- Sender: paws@spam (Daniel Baehr)
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <rmbyers.0ctk@bfield.uucp>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 11:18:40 CST
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- In article <rmbyers.0ctk@bfield.uucp>, rmbyers@bfield.uucp (Randy Byers) writes:
- > I've got a 22mhz combo board (5megs RAM, SCSI controller, 22mhz 030). I've got
- > 3 SCSI hard drives chained together - 2 105meg Quantums and an 870meg Toshiba -
- > brand new. When I do a cold boot, the system recognizes the 2 quantums and
- > boots off of the one, but it never recognizes the Toshiba. However, when I do
- > a warm boot (ctrl-amiga-amiga), it recognizes it just fine.
- >
- > Any idea what the problem is? A further clue is that the drive does grind away
- > a bit on cold boot, but it makes other noises on warm-boot - there are three
- > partitions on it - on warm boot, it makes three distinct clucking sounds -
- > accessing each paritition I assume. It doesn't make these noises on cold boot.
- >
- > Any help would be appreciated!
- >
- Yup! Its the classic problem GVP has accessing some HDs. "Apparently"
- the drive dosn't spin up fast enough to be recognised by the controller.
- BULLSH*T!!! Buy a Trumpcard from IVS. It works just fine with my drives
- where the GVP would puke. If a drive taking 32 seconds to spin-up
- is to slow for a controller, to hell with the controller!!! In all reality most
- drives are "ready" a few seconds after powerup and the controller on the drive
- can talk to the controller in the Amiga. If the Amiga is "told" that the
- drive isn't spun up yet it should wait OR come back to it after it checks for
- the existance of other devices on the bus.
-
- In short your system is working as well as it is going to with your GVP
- controller.
-
- All this comes from my VERY BAD experience with GVP and my HD. They were
- pretty speachless after I told them the hard drive worked fine with a TrumpCard!!
- :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
-
- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Randy Byers, co-sysop, Bakers Field BBS - 1gig+, 3 lines, On-line Games,
- > (519) 725-9909 Amiga, Mac, DOS, Windows, OS/2, C64
- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
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- Daniel Baehr
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