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Title: 1230scsi.device
Post by: machinehead on April 04, 2004, 05:19:29 PM

Hi!
I have a 1230 scsi with my Blizzard 060. Lately, the 1230 shows the ram, but can't find any devices. I changed the cable, the CD drive and re-fitted all boards. Nothing.
I have since moved to the ATA3 IDE bus, I don't really need the scsi controller. Although the ram still works!
The problem is I can't find out how to stop the Amiga from looking for a drive on the 1230.
Any ideas?
Thank you.
Dave

Title: Re: 1230scsi.device
Post by: Effy on April 04, 2004, 05:52:51 PM

Sounds not too difficult. There seem to be two options.
1) you use AsimCDFS to access cdroms. Look in the user-startup, there should be a line starting with ´mount´ and then at the end something like ´CD0´ or ´CD1´. Those CD0 or CD1 can be found in SYS:Storage/Dosdrivers. You can edit them with DirOpus if you want to or just delete the line in the user-startup. That way the computer won´t try to mount something that isn´t there ...
2) you use AmiCDFS or AllegroCDFS. In that case there is no line in the user-startup, but the CD0 or CD1 or whatever the cd was called is now to be found in SYS:Devs/Dosdrivers. Everything that is in that directory will be mounted on startup, so if you don´t want the cd to be mounted then you have to remove the file (with the icon) ...

Let me know if it helps ...

Title: Re: 1230scsi.device
Post by: Jettah on April 04, 2004, 06:04:07 PM

Hi Machinehead,

The problem is I can't find out how to stop the Amiga from looking for a drive on the 1230.
Any ideas?

Normally speaking, either a disk, when not of the removable type, has a RDB and the Amiga tries to mount any volume on such a device with use of information found there. Your Amiga tries to mount such a device but does not succeed? Then the controller is functioning as advertized, but maybe the disk's RDB is incorrect/corrupt. Removable types CAN be mounteed using their RDB (ZIPs) OR are mounted using a mountfile as found in DEVS:DosDrivers, like CD-ROMs.

What exactly do you have hooked up to the controller? And which of the devices are not recognized?

Maybe this was of some help to you.

Regards,

Tjitte

Title: Re: 1230scsi.device
Post by: machinehead on April 04, 2004, 06:45:22 PM

Thanks!
I have tried 2 different scsi CD roms on this controller and neither one worked.
I am using AllegroCDFS, this came with the FastATA controller(This is the one that plugs into the ROM sockets)
So I can delete the mount line because Allegro dosen't need to be mounted?
Dave

Title: Re: 1230scsi.device
Post by: machinehead on April 04, 2004, 07:21:14 PM

Got it!!
Had to remove all icons and files relating to CDFS.
Now it works! ATAcdfs is the one I needed. There is no longer a SCSI device in my A1200!
Plus I still have the RAM.
Thank you!
Dave

Title: Re: 1230scsi.device
Post by: Doobrey on April 05, 2004, 10:12:59 AM

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machinehead wrote:

The problem is I can't find out how to stop the Amiga from looking for a drive on the 1230.

 Dunno about the 1230, but on the Apollo boards there`s a jumper to enable/disable the SCSI