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- From: kuch@reed.edu (Jerry Kuch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: HELP!!! Quantum Drive Installation Nightmare!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.052735.7068@reed.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 05:27:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Aug20.052735.7068
- Organization: People Who May Have Bought Dead Drives or Just be Knobs
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- Howdy, all. Some questions.
-
- First, the problem....
-
- I've got an A2000 with the following installed:
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- - Old GVP Impact A2000 SCSI controller
- - GVP Impact 68030 Processor with 4MB 32-bit RAM
- - Quantum 40S mounted on the hardcard and working
- - new ECS (1MB Agnus, Super Denise)
-
- Now, the catch.
-
- Recently I bought a second hand Quantum 105S SCSI drive. Tonight, I
- tried to install the sucker to convince myself that I hadn't just been
- sold a $260 paperweight. Anyway, here's what I did...
-
- Set the jumpers on the 105S to select SCSI ID 1... i.e. A0 on, A1 and A2 off.
- The 40MB drive inside is set to SCSI ID 0.
-
- Then I removed the 40S from the hardcard and replaced its SCSI cable with
- a new one with more connectors. I have the mating of the cable and drive
- correct by keying and by the red strip on the ribbon cable. Then I connected
- the second hard disk to the end of the cable, connected it to the A2000's
- power supply, and installed the resistor terminator packs on the 105S
- (orientation of the resistor packs, I would presume, doesn't matter).
-
- Then I powered up the machine. Both drives audibly spin up. The busy
- lights for each drive flash a bit, and then the system boots from the
- 40 meg drive, as it always has. When Workbench comes up, there is no
- sign of any other hard drives in the system. When I run GVP's FAAASTPrep
- utility, it will come up and display:
-
- Name: QUANTUM ID: P40S 940-40-94xx Rev:7.9 Size: 39MB
- LowCyl: 1 HiCyl: 1280 Heads: 2 Sectors: 32 Blocks 82029
-
- Size FileSys LowCyl HiCyl BootPri Mem Buffers Mask Partition Name
- 40 FFS 1 1280 -5 E 32 0xFFFFFE DH0
-
- But when I click to switch and look at ID number 1, I get....
-
- Name: QUANTUM ID: P105SS 910-10-94 Rev:A.1 Size: 0MB
- LowCyl: 0 HiCyl: 0 Heads: 0 Sectors: 0 Blocks: 0
-
- And all of the partitions information fields, as well as the second line of
- the above listing low and high cylinder, etc. are ghosted out.
-
- Clicking on low-level format accomplishes nothing, and attempts to read or
- write the drive's info give back "This function can only be used for a
- valid read/write access unit."
-
- Simply put, what am I doing wrong, or what could I be doing wrong? Any
- suggestions would be helpful. I'm hoping that this is just my own clue-
- lessness and that I didn't just get hosed for a dead drive, or for a drive
- that somehow has decided that it's not going to be compatible with my
- SCSI card. Has anybody out there tried setting up multiple drives with
- this controller? Anybody from GVP?
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- --
- Jerry Kuch (t-gerldk@microsoft.com) | "Sic Gorgianus Allos Subjectatus Nunc."
- "I was wrong to play God. Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
- Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet." - Montgomery Burns
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