Warpengine SCSI troubles

[Robert17]

Evening all, been a while but I'm slowly getting back into working on my Amiga projects again,

Anyway - Earlier on today I was trying to get a CD-Rom drive to work on the SCSI Chain of a Warpengine card.

I tried 2 different CD Drives, various cables and termination combinations and settings of the SCSI controller, but every time HDToolbox or HDInst Tools polled the SCSI Bus, the machine would crash and re-boot.

I have also connected a Hard disk as ID0 - this works without issue - but the CD Drive will not, whether the HDD is connected, or not.

My Question is: Is it possible to use CD-Rom drives on the Warpengine - because I'm starting to doubt that it's possible :-)

If it's not possible I'll just use an IDE CD-Rom on the A4000s IDE port.

Thanks in advance for any help :-)

Robert.

[Robert17]

Actually, only the drive end was terminated - so I've just ordered some passive 50pin terminators so I can put one on before the scsi controller too, as I understand it must be terminated both ends of the chain :-)

Robert.

[Robert17]

Hi to all - I have come to the conclusion that the 2 CD-Roms I was trying to use may be faulty - as they weren't tested for a long time. The Warpengine has the resistor packs fitted, so with Term-Controller-HDD-Term The Warpengine SCSI works as it should.

So Now I've used an IDE CD-Rom to install OS 3.9 and everything is fine.

Also, just dismantled my Micronik Big tower, as it's a bit rusty. Now wire brushing it down and going to break out the bottom coat of grey primer later on.

Pictures to follow I suspect :-)

Robert.