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Originally Posted by AmmoJammo
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LUN value is for attaching two or more identical drives at an unique ID. Don't mess with it to avoid hair pulling.
Using two terminated devices on each end of the cable is OK. The problem is the GVP controller: it is permanently terminated (by three bank resistors). So you have to put the GVP in one end of the cable, leave the HD non-terminated and use the CD-ROM termination.
Also use the GVP-SCSI.device (the spelling is very important and is case-sensitive!).
As a final advice, set the CD with a higher ID than the HD units you may have. For my own preference, I'm always using ID0 for the boot drive, then ID1 for a probable second unit and the CD as ID2 (can be anyone towards this number but ID7, which is the GVP controller itself).
BABEL_CD_FS is very good and can be used flawlessly with any CD controller you want.
that may be so but Iirc you can only terminate a scsi chain once on the last device, anything terminated before the last device will become the last device.Quote:
Originally Posted by AmmoJammo
Drive doesn't work unless the switch is on, and its not a gvp controller.
Thats the only thing I changed.
Using AmiCDFS,
The only things I set in that were the ID to 1, and device to scsi.device (which it was by default, but I'd changed it before I knew what I was doing... still don't really)
I only quickly tested it last night, as it was late, but its the first time the drive has actually done anything in WB!
Oops! It's a C= A590. Then you must use scsi.device, not gvp_scsi.device.
Edit the tooltypes of the CD0: icon to reflect the correct controller and CD SCSI ID.
Since both the CD unit and the HD may have internal active terminators, you must sack the resistors banks on the A590.
You must also enable the TERM_POWER jumper in just one drive. If you don't want to have the CD unit always turned on, consider an external active terminator on the back of the external case, or place an active terminator on the back of the A590 every time you sack the CD unit cable.
planning to tower the whole setup as there's too many external bits, so everything will always be powered up.
it reads discs now, but the first disc I burnt on a PC (besides the "midtown 2" disc that was burnt years ago) shows up as "CD0:NDOS"
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all CD's aren't reading now...
also, the HDD was never terminated...
the HDD has two terminator power jumpers?
Which CD file system are you using? IDEFix97 works all types of CD I throw into the CD units of my Amigas, BABEL_CDFS will also work perfectly, IIRC.
Don't remember about the Asim_CDFS because it is way too old.
Most HD units have two termination jumpers: one for the termination itself, the other to provide voltage to the TERM_POWER (sometimes labelled as TP). This last one will provide +5V on the TERM_POWER wire of the SCSI cable to active terminators. Without one (and just one!) device providing this voltage the active terminators will not work correctly, if at all.
sometimes it'll read the discs, others it comes up with CD0:NDOS.
CD is now ID 4
HDD is ID 2
HDD is terminated, CD is not, with TPower enabled on the HDD.
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And switch 2 on the a590 is off again
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It appears the hdd doesn't like to be terminated. So the cd is now, Im beginning to think the drive May be faulty.
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changed a few things around... turns out the HDD wasn't terminated, tried terminating that instead of the CD, and it failed, HDD just beeped at me...
so, put the termination back on the cd rom, and changed the cable around, as well as changing the cd id to 4.
so, the cable goes from the A590, to the HDD (ID2), to the CDRom(ID4) (which is terminated)
And even then, it didn't work properly, sometimes reading a few discs, other times not even realising there was a CDrom in the drive...
SO! I ditched AmiCDFS, (after already ditching BabelCDFS) and tried IDEfix97 instead...
It appears to actually work! all the discs I've put in its recognised, windows 98 install disc? a linux disc? apparently I have a burnt copy of halflife with no label...
Not only that, but AmiCDFS wasn't displaying full folder and file names, whereas IDEfix displays the full name, 20+ characters long, no worries!
So, If I see anyone recommending BabelCDFS, or AmiCDFS, I'm going to slap them!
and as I said, this drive has two "terminator power" jumpers ;)
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Think I used IDEFIX'97 Software for it to work.
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Originally Posted by Buzzfuzz
This is not two termination power jumpers: it's a matrix selector.
- Left vertical position will give termination power to the whole bus (cable). Useful when no other device provides power to terminators and for the drive itself;
- Right vertical position will give termination power just for the HD itself (useful when you don't know if something else will deliver this voltage);
- Bottom horizontal position will give termination power to the cable (bus), but will not give termination power to the HD drive itself (useful when there is no other device that can deliver the voltage, but the drive is not the first or last in the chain).
Another hint: most CD units only have passive termination (resistor packs), so no need for termination power. If the A590 have resistor packs and they are probably located in parallel with the internal SCSI connector, or near the SCSI chip. Check if the resistor pack is socketed.
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hi could i ask what all this editing/out was for
I think AJ is Pi$$ed off at having his computer being wiped out by the AmiBay virus from yesterday. :Doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by johnim
What Amibay virus? Did i miss something? :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by djosI think AJ is Pi$$ed off at having his computer being wiped out by the AmiBay virus from yesterday. :Doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by johnim
Luckily for you yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Powerpie5000What Amibay virus? Did i miss something? :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by djosI think AJ is Pi$$ed off at having his computer being wiped out by the AmiBay virus from yesterday. :Doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by johnim
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=31287