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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: magnetic on September 05, 2004, 08:53:04 AM
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Hi Amigans
I have an Amiga 2000 with a GVP 030 w/SCSI. I have 2 SCSI drives hooked up. One is a 250mb Maxtor SCSI and the new one I just added is a Seagate Baracuda 4gb (Both 50 pin)
When I first power on the Amiga it boots from the Maxtor but the Seagate isnt recognized. I have to warm reboot and then it shows up.
I'm assuming this is due to the fact the drive needs time to spin up. How can I correct this problem so that the drive comes up on Power On?
Thanks in advance.
magnetic
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If you always want to boot from the Maxtor, you could add the following lines to the beginning of your startup-sequence:
assign >nil: sdh0: exists
if warn
reboot
endif
SDH0 is the name of one of the partitions on the Seagate. The Reboot command is on the Install disk. Certainly this will give you a loop if you remove the Seagate or if it has other troubles.
You could also try to swap the drives, or try different SCSI IDs (e.g. give the Maxtor a higher one than the Seagate).
Or look if the Seagate has a "boot delay" jumper which has to be removed (if it is a "disable boot delay" jumpper, it has to be set of course).
Bye,
Thomas
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It seems to me I had a simular problem on an old Rodime drive. I think I solved it by running GVPscsictrl (should be on the disk that came with the GVP card) after the computer booted up. It should scan the SCSI bus and find/mount the drive. I think I also used this command to recognize when I switched cartidges in my Syquest 44.
Ed King
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I will try this. Thank you very much.
magnetic