A590 SCSI not working

[ami500]

Ok, the actual A590 itself is working. I put in an additional 2mb of RAM and the amiga is seeing it all.

The problem is, it's not seeing the 2GB SCSI HDD I also put in.

I set the dip switches so it's the only SCSI drive in there, and I set delayed boot.

But under workbench, the icon is just not there.

The drive was pulled from a working computer. The drive itself does work.

Is there something else special I had to do? Should it have been fdisked so there were no dos partitions? Thanks.

[ami500]

Doh! I forgot about that disk. I'll have to see if something is on it.

Otherwise I should be upgrading to 2.04 rom and 2.1 workbench soon so that should do it then too? Thanks.

[ami500]

Ok what's fast file system?

Is it the file system that kickstart 2.x uses or something?

[ami500]

Ok cool. So it looks like the rom and kickstart upgrade I had planned should cover that trick then too. Thanks guys. Now I just have to get onto the dealer and get the chip and workbench.

[ami500]

Jope wrote:

hagar wrote:

ami500 wrote:
Ok what's fast file system?

Is it the file system that kickstart 2.x uses or something?

I think that I have read in the WB 1.3 manual that the Fast File System is supported in Workbench 1.3, but ONLY for hard drives. However the best is probably to upgrade to 2.x anyway.

Hmm, you can use the 1.3 FFS for floppies too - you need to create a mountlist for them and use the diskchange command when you swap floppies.

The 2.0 FFS is in ROM, so it's available as soon as you power up the machine.

3.1 is the way to go anyway.

I decided to go with the 2.04 rom instead of the 3.1 mostly due to cost, and by the look of it, the 2.04 will do all I need it to do anyway. (Read PC disks and sort out this SCSI drive).

If all goes well, I'll have it by friday.

[ami500]

Jope wrote:
Well technically you don't need 2.04 for either of those tasks - 1.3 can handle both..

The FFS goes in the RDB of the hard drive, so you can have an FFS drive with 1.3 and also you can get crossdos or messydisk for 1.3

But it's a good idea to upgrade - 2.0 forwards is a big leap from 1.3 in usability.

Hope you can find those 2.1 disks so you can get crossdos out of the box..

I have 1.3 rom and 1.3 workbench and can't read pc formatted floppies.

And yep, I'm getting workbench 2.1 with the rom. And a new mouse too. Damn it sucks using the keyboard to move the cursor.

[ami500]

zipper wrote:
>I have 1.3 rom and 1.3 workbench and can't read pc formatted floppies.

MessyDos can fix that problem (Aminet).

Yea, but the catch is I have to fart around with a serial link because the catch22 otherwise is that I'd need it to read pc formatted floppies to get that software on in the first place to be able to read pc formatted floppies.

But it all should be good, I just paid for a rom, workbench and new mouse so I should get them in the mail tomorrow.