Getting Commodore "insert WB disk" animation after attachng Jaz drive

[SACC-guy]

I've connected the SCSI cable to both connectors on the back of the Jaz drive. What else should I do? The way I have it connected right now is the way I've always (successfully) connected it in the past

I'm thinking of using a SCSI-2 to SCSi-1 cable and connecting the Jaz drive to the built-in SCSI-1 port on the back of the Amiga 4000.

Careful!! the 4000 desktop does NOT have a built -in scsi port!

[SACC-guy]

I located the manual today and noted the termination positions
and set the termination correctly, resulting in the termination light going on!

However, even though the A4000 %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8220;boots%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8221; the Commodore %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8220;insert WB disk%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8221; appears again!

You said it worked before...

WHAT did you change?

[SACC-guy]

I changed the termination to ON (there are three options: ON, OFF, and AUTOMATIC, which turns the termination on or off depending on the rest of the SCSI chain)

I also set it to AUTOMATIC and got the same result, the "insert disk" animation.

No, what else did you change before this term thing. (you said it was working before?)
Was it always external, always connected, only connected for back up?

If always external, do you power on the ext box first, then the computer?

[SACC-guy]

Okay, It might be that the system drive is slower then the jaz. Is the jaz drive set up as a bootable disk? Does the ext box have a termination block on the outside?
It might be double termed now?

But the conflict is with the system drive being read first.
Try removing the cartridge, then first power up the ext box, power up the amiga, after it's booted, insert the cartridge, let it spin up and...hopefully be accessible...

[SACC-guy]

Thanks for the insight! Most of the time I haven't had a cartridge in the Jaz drive, and doesn't have a termination block on the outside.

OK, I'l disconnect the Jaz drive, go into the Early Startup window and make sure the HD boo priority is set to zero (that's the lowest, right?)

No...
from amiga hard drive book, page 4-11
"It is suggested that you set your boot partition's priority to 1 and any other bootable partition to a priority of 0."

BTW, df0: has the default setting of 5.

[SACC-guy]

Okay, let me see if I got this..

Your 4000 has a Phase5 scsi controller..
which has a hard drive inside the 4000 case and an ext cd and an ext jaz drive. (2 boxes)

Do you have the cd attached first and then daisy chain to the jaz? Or the other way?
If so, make use the first ext device is NOT terminated! Only the last scsi device should be terminated.

[SACC-guy]

By default, NOTHING is connected externally.

SCSI numbering:
HD 0
internal CD-ROM 6
external CD-R/W (when connected) 2
external Jaz drive (when connected) 4

I also have an external ZIP drive, whose SCSI ID is 5.

Is any thing connected to the 4000 ide header?

[SACC-guy]

Mike,
Invite this guy to one of your meetings and fix this...please! (he's in d.c.)

[SACC-guy]

Just FYI y'all: I attached my SCSI ZIP drive, checked the SCSI ID (5) and termination, and everything booted up fine, and the ZIP drive works perfectly.

So, it's the Jaz device that is borked??