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Offline Matt_H

Re: Questions about usage external SCSI card reader
« on: May 15, 2016, 02:50:18 AM »
I think this is less an issue with the device and more an "issue" with your SCSI controller. A lot of removable devices need to be nudged with Mounter whenever there's a disk change. I had this issue years ago with  a GVP A530 and a SyQuest drive. There's nothing wrong, per se, but the driver for the SCSI controller (or the SCSI controller itself) just doesn't know how to deal with removable storage.

Do you have this device attached to the A3000 in your signature? If so,  a rev 08 SCSI chip might help.

Edit: Another option would be to create a mountlist for, say, a 4GB card on the device instead of prepping said card with an RDB in HDToolbox. That would essentially make the device a "drive" like PC0:, DF1:, CD0:, etc., which the controller might handle more gracefully. No multiple partitions this way, tho.
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Offline Matt_H

Re: Questions about usage external SCSI card reader
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2016, 10:20:13 PM »
First of all, what machine and SCSI controller is this card reader attached to? That will determine what your options are.

It's been ages since I've done a mountlist for a non-RDB device, but let me see if I can remember the process. I think you can use GiggleDisk (Aminet) to read the device geometry and it will generate a mountlist for you. With some simple editing (i.e., remove a # symbol) you can turn it into a DOSDriver - have a look at some of your existing ones for examples of the syntax.