CyberStormPPC SCSI and LVD/SE

[amigadave]

Getting help for Cyberstorm SCSI controllers is very hard and most requests for help with these devices scroll off the front page of this site before they get more than 1 to 4 responses (usually that are not too helpful).  I have asked for help, or any ideas about why my own Cyberstorm SCSI controller can see and use my 68pin CDROM, but does not show any hard drives connected to the cable, no matter which hard drives I try to hook up to it and have not gotten any help in resolving the problem.  At least now I have the CDROM working, which is an improvement over not having anything recognized, so I assume that the cable is properly terminated.

I am sure there are many Amiga users that have and use the SCSI controller on their Cyberstorm accelerators (and Blizzard accelerators), but they don't seem to have any advice to give to users that are having problems with their SCSI controllers, or they don't have any idea of how they got their's working without any problems.

[amigadave]

The Cyberstorm controller is not terminated, so the cable must be terminated on both ends, or the devices on each end must have SCSI termination built-in and enabled on them.  I have tried many different 50pin, 68pin & 80pin SCA hard drives and have yet been able to get any of the hard drives working on the Cyberstorm SCSI controller (on either of my two Cyberstorm PPC accelerator cards).  I have entered the early boot menu for the Cyberstorm using the Esc key and tried many different settings a while ago.  I am ready to try again, if anyone has suggestions on what settings to use.  I have eliminated the obvious problems of conflicting unit numbers being used on more than one device and tried to get the hard drive working with and without the CDROM connected to the cable.  I have also tried many different jumper settings on the hard drives themselves, including setting the SE jumper and with or without the LVD jumper (IIRC).

Edit:  One of my two A4000's with Cyberstorm PPC accelerators, I am using a Deneb with AmigaOS3.9 booting from a USB memory stick that works quite well, but would still like to be able to use a SCSI hard drive for additional storage space.  I do not have a Deneb for the second A4000 (yet).

[amigadave]

I have a CS-MKIII, never had a problem with the SCSI, so other than standard SCSI voo-doo troubleshooting, I cannot offer much help.  I'm using an IBM 18GB LVD/SE hard drive, had a Plextor wide-SCSI CD, and a 50-pin Zip drive with a Datamate 68-pin to narrow adapter.  The Zip drive is gone, now, and the Plextor wide has been replaced with an Acard SCSI-to-IDE adaper on a DVD drive.

The entire bus is terminated.  Never had a problem.

What jumper settings on the IBM 18gb drive are you using and what settings in the Cyberstorm early boot menu are set?