Need a little help with GVP 4060DT SCSI

[Nathanieltolbert]

Okay, so I remember reading a post on one of the many Amiga forums I used to frequent, and I recall reading an article about some changes you can make to the settings on an A4000D with the 4060DT that makes the SCSI II connection recognize hard drives larger than 4GB. I don't remember where I read it, but I know it worked, because up until about 3 hours ago, I had a UWSCSI hard drive running on it before the drive just suddenly died on me. If anyone can remember or find the article (I have looked, but I am uncertain as to what keywords I should be searching for and what it will be under.) and point me towards it I would be grateful. It's very frustrating for me because the drive that died was very very quiet, and I don't have a drive that quiet to replace it with. Thanks for the help.

 

[Slayer]

It's a little confusing since you say the actual HD has failed? But that would mean your A4000 settings would still be the same... if anything just examine the actual HD for any strange jumper settings or missing jumpers and make sure your new HD doesn't have things set when they shouldn't be...

 

[Nathanieltolbert]

the UWSCSI Hard drive died. I've tested it, no spin up. Now there was a file configuration that I did based on instructions to this specific hard drive that made the GVPSCSI2.device allow me to access more than 4 GB of hard drive space. I cannot find these instructions. I need to replace the drive so that I can continue to use my A4000 I know the drive I have works, I just cannot see more than 4 GB of it. I guess I should clarify. The settings you change are in a file in the file system on the operating system, not a physical setting in the A4000 on either the motherboard or the 4060DT

 

[hikey]

I think the file you're referring to is devs:ndspatch.cfg
find the entry for tekscsi2.device and change it to gvpscsi2.device

 

[Nathanieltolbert]

interestingly enough, there isn't a listing for the tekscsi2.device, but I think I found the command I'm looking for to put into the ndspatch.cfg. Let me run it by you and you can tell me if I found the right thing.

DEVICE gvpscsi2.device DEVICETYPE NSDTYPE_TRACKDISK COMMANDS 2-5,9-15,20-21,23,28 IOERRNOCMD

Does that look right?

 

[Slayer]

I think the part you're missed out is you've done a fresh install of your Operating System?

Hence the generic version of devs:ndspatch.cfg which would require re-editing...

otherwise I need a drink and to stay out of these types of threads in future

 

[Nathanieltolbert]

No, you are correct, I am configuring another hard drive to replace the one that died a horrible death. It's a 40GB version and I needed to patch that file property to allow it to see more than the first 4GB. I tested this setting and it seems to work well.