Has anyone gotten one of these to successfully work on the Amiga? I have the 5.0 board, and have had zero problems getting it working on my A3000. The V6.0 board sports faster transfer rates, so, I decided to order one. I have gone back and forth with the designer, and, nothing gets it working properly. He even sent me a replacement board of the latest revision, which fixes some of the power issues my first one's revision was known to have, but, still no dice.
I've tried multiple SD cards, tried it on both my A3000 and A500 with the GVP sidecar, but, no luck on either.
Here's the gist of the issue. I prepare the SD card on either a PC or MAC to wipe out its partitions, then I format it to FAT32. I then insert the SD into the SCSI2SD, and plug that, via USB, into my PC or MAC to configure it with the SCSI2SD-util. Everything saves properly after I put the proper parameters in for what size drive I want it to work as. I am using a 4 gig card, and have the SCSI2SD configured to only make the first 3.6 gigs visible to the computer. I do this because on this version, 6, the settings for the SCSi2SD card are saved on the SD card, instead of in flash memory on the SCSI2SD itself, as it was done on the v5 board. I don't want the Amiga wiping out the settings somehow, since they are saved in the very last two "cylinders" of the SDCARD.
After all this is saved, I put the card into the A3000 or A500 sidecar, and fire up HDTOOLBOX (3.9 on the A3000 and 3.1 on the A500). Both will detect the "hard disk" with all its proper settings (SCSI ID, size, manufacturer, revision number, product name, etc.). I can then proceed to install the RDB on the "drive." All goes as it should. I can then reboot and partition and reboot again, or just go right to partitioning from install of RDB, and it partitions fine.
After partitioning is complete, I reboot again so I can then format. Instead of being detected as an empty drive (being mounted as NDOS or something similar) in need of formatting, the drive is then not detected or mounted. I go back to HDTOOLBOX to check the settings, and, all of the information that was previously there (the SCSI ID, SIZE, MANUFACTURER, REVISION NUMBER, PRODUCT NAME) has been wiped out and the drive cannot be installed due to something like "invalid drive identifier."
IF I repeat the wiping of the SD card, redoing the board's settings via USB, etc., and reinsert the board, all these parameters are again detected properly by HDTOOLBOX, but, once again, after installing the RDB, the drive is rendered undetectable.
My first thought is that the amiga is somehow killing off the reserved area on the SD card that hold's the board's settings after I install the RDB. I think this because the V5.0 board had its own flash array for storing settings. But, the card's developer swears this is impossible because the 6.0 board doesn't grant the computer access to the "reserved for settings" sections of the SD card.
Has anyone had success with getting a 6.0 board to work?
BTW, termination is properly set.
