* SOLVED * SCSI hdd don't automount

[derringer3]

Hi Folks!

I have a problem with my scsi hdd. I recently got a quantum atlas 10K 9GB Hdd. I connect it with my blizzardppc card. First no luck, I tried all the possible versions and wariations of hdtoolbox. (yeah i gave blizzppc.device to search for the drive.)But nothing happened.

Then i try cyberscsi pack. there is two program  and one of them an option to rescan the device. It showed the correct hdd, and i can mount it with a button. Only then i can  partition any software. (hdtoolbox etc.)
I tried sfs ffs but my problem is that no matter what  i write on it the system only sees this hdd when i use the the program of the cyberscsi pack. (rescan drive and mount) I check the button of auto mount drive when i partitioned it.
So what will be the solution?

[BinoX]

Isn't there an automount option in the blizzard ppcs early menu (holding esc on startup)

My A1200 ppc aint plugged in atm, I will check 2morrow

[Piru]

Yeah, you need to set at least 1 "LUN" for the specific SCSI-ID.

BPPC has pretty solid SCSI and RDB implementation, it really should work OTB.

[derringer3]

Half succes. I managed to automount the drives, and it can boot the os, if i disabled the ide hdd in boot menu. But when i take out the old ide drive from amiga, the scsi hdd don't boot.
I got an illegal operation yellow lined Guru message with the following numbers: 0100 009 44003560

Now what?

[Piru]

You can make the SCSI HDD boot first by lowering the IDE HDD bootable partition priority.

Regarding the problem when using the SCSI HDD alone: Are you perhaps using some other filesystem than the ROM FFS?

If so, you must put the filesystem on the the RDB of the SCSI HDD, too.

[derringer3]

Ok I lowered the boot priority, so i don't need to set in early startup menu. All is working fine. (scsi and ide) But the problem not solved.
I using SFS all partition. (SCSI and IDE)

Put filesystem in rdb? I added/loaded sfs filesystem, when partitioned to all of the partition, not just set it custom/sfs. Or any more work need to be done?

So when i switch off my IDE drive and only my scsi drive present (or and my dvd-writer drive on ide) the system is still hang before my miggy begin to start-up.

[Piru]

Just to clarify, are the same filesystems on both IDE and SCSI RDB?

[derringer3]

Yeah same version of sfs

[Piru]

Hmm. Ok.

Then the only other option I can think of is the blizzppc asynchronous SCSI initialization crash. I found and reported the bug many many many moons ago. IIRC the triggering of the bug depended on timing, for example having a dummy 2nd HDD could delay the boot enough to hide the problem.

IIRC latest flashroms fixed the bug.

If it isn't this either, then I really have no clue.

[mikolas]

I was Googling identical problem and managed to solve it myself so I thought to share my finding although this thread is old.

It seems that HDToolBox under 3.9 is doing something really funny when adding SFS filesystem to the RDB while partitioning a fresh drive. I installed a new drive in my BPPC and when I physically removed the internal IDE drive, the machine would crash on boot.

Lucky me, I also checked out the filesystems in the RDB with HDInstTools and for some reason, it seems that HDToolBox had set the dostype of SmartFileSystem as CFS\0 instead of SFS\0. Changing that and also removing FFS 45.9 (I don't use it at all) seemed to fix all problems and now my computer boots nicely from an external SCSI drive.

Rgds,
Mikko.

[Tripitaka]

A first post!

Wellcome Mikko to A'org.
 :pint:  :pint:

[derringer3]

Finally I solved the problem. I wanted to back up my system, and deleted all of the partition from the IDE hd. My scsi hd won't boot.... So the problem is my "old" ide hd had correct sfs partitions and the system could read the sfs data from the rdb of my ide drive. Since my scsi hdd was not correctly partitioned, (Now i know it) the system can't load the data of sfs because it was nowhere. So the system crash.
I partitioned my old ide to sfs  under winuae, and then i can boot up my system again in real amiga. The deleted the sfs filesyystem under hdtoolbox, and added again.
I think the problem was i mismatched the sfs hex numbers, so i set it correctly now. And finally my scsi hd  working without the presence of my ide hd.

[mikolas]

@Tripitaka

Thank you :-)

@derringer3

Glad that you solved the problem. I'm currently fighting with a new problem as I decided to install an IDE-SCSI adapter (made for ATAPI devices) and it at first seemed to work and then suddenly decided to go into ATAPI mode :-) Now, with a different IDE drive it seems to work again, oh well....