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- From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: Need help getting A2090 controller working with Miniscribe 8425S!!!
- Message-ID: <AQDCr*DW0@caleb.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 07:30:12 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.012016.17850@lonex.rl.af.mil>
- Organization: is sometimes desirable
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- In article <1992Sep2.012016.17850@lonex.rl.af.mil>, Michael A. Kopack writes:
-
- >
- > Please help me before I murder this A2000!!
- >
- > I just got this A2090 card to control an old hard drive I picked up a while
- > back. It's a MiniScribe 8425S 20 Megger. When I got the A2090, it didn't
- > have any install disk, but somebody was nice enough to uuencode and mail
- > it to me. I copied my Workbench disk like instructed and booted up with that
- > disk. I then went over to the Instal disk and double clicked on the Install
- > icon. A bunch of stuff got copied into RAM: and then another screen came
- > up. I was asked if I wanted to continue, said yes and the drive copies some
- > stuf into my mountlist and c: directory. Then it goes into this this where
- > it says "loading driver" the workbench disk spins for a second and then it
- > just sits there. I can't close the window, or exit the program. I bring up
- > another Shell, do a Mount RES2: and it is mounted (confirmed using assign).
- > Then I type Prep RES2: and I get an error -1 return code from Harddisk.device
- > or something like that.
- >
- > What the frick am I doing wrong????
-
- I don't know. However, check the MountList to make sure that the "Unit" in the
- MountList is set to 3 (three) higher than the jumpered SCSI ID of the drive.
- (A2090 "units" start with 1 and the ST-506 drives are units 1 and 2.)
-
- I never tried "install." I just put hddisk and hddisk.info in the Expansion
- drawer, set up the MountList, and rebooted. Then I ran prep. Remember that the
- RES number is 1 (one) less than the "unit" in the MountList.
-
- > ONE time I tried, I got it to go as far as loading driver, actually load the
- > driver, it brought up alittle menu and asked if I had 0)custom installation
- > 1)scsi 2)st506. I put in 0, and it asked me all the questions about heads
- > and cylindes and all that. It said eveything was cool and to reboot the system
- > now. I did so, and the thing just stopped halfway through the SSequence....
- >
- > What set of pins should the drive jumper be on???? I've been trying with
- > it on the rear most set, and the next one closer to the front.
-
- Sorry, I don't know how the Miniscribe jumpers are laid out. You could try calling
- Maxtor (they now own Miniscribe.)
-
- I hope this helps.
-
-
- Jim Pritchett
-
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