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- From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: GVP Combo board not recognizing 870meg SCSI on cold boot.
- Message-ID: <te4hs*Rx1@caleb.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:10:05 GMT
- References: <rmbyers.0ctk@bfield.uucp> <aMtfs*yw1@caleb.UUCP>
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- In article <aMtfs*yw1@caleb.UUCP>, Jim Pritchett writes:
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- > In article <rmbyers.0ctk@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!
- >
- > It sounds like the Toshiba takes too long to spin up. There is a PD program
- > (sorry I don't remember the name) that should help.
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- You could also try adding "gvpscsicntl -r" to your startup-sequence after enough
- time has passed to allow the drive to get ready. This is supposed to rescan the
- SCSI bus for devices.
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- Jim Pritchett
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