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Micronik z3i busboard with onboard scsi
« on: December 13, 2005, 04:12:37 PM »
I have recently got hold of one of these rarities, and am having a little trouble configuring it.  

Setup - OS3.9 with blizzard PPC/040:
Will see busboard, but not the SCSI

Setup - OS3.9 with blizzard 1230:
Will see busboard and the SCSI

I have tried all combinations of jumpers settings to try and get the damn thing to see the SCSI with the PPC attached, but it just isn't playing.

Furthermore the instructions are in German - my german is not bad, but I'm not certain I have understood it all.

There's a CSIII patch, which the readme (also in german) explains allows the busboard to work with CSPPC, mk3, mk2 (incl 040) and mk1 aswell as Blizzard PPC (with 060).
There is also a drawer of 'Powertools' which contains 2 tools - set60nsmode (fairly self explanatory, required when using 60ns mode in the PPC start menu) and rom2fast (again, fairly obvious, called in startup when using rom2fast in PPC start menu), and a libs drawer containing 68040new.library.

My hazy translation of the readme suggests one needs the 68040new.library in libs (although previously I thought this was only required when patching for 68060), the CSIII patch in wbstartup, and the rom2fast called in startup-sequence.

However, rom2fast causes my system to continually reboot (after taking a couple of minutes to think about it, and accessing the HDD for quite a while).

Have tried everything else, still does not see the 123scsi.device (which is the scsi bus of the micronik board).
Am now thinking there may be a conflict between rom patches applied by BPPC and Micronik, although how to solve is beyond me, short of trial-and-erroring old versions of the BPPC flashroms.

Oh, I tried disabling the (non-existent) BPPC scsi device just in case - no diff :-( .

Perhaps it is just incompatible: any ideas???  :-?
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Re: Micronik z3i busboard with onboard scsi
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2005, 10:15:27 PM »
Hi, thanks for the suggestions:

@DoctorQ - tried disabling the maprom, still no scsi bus.  (btw - did you sell you Blizzard PPC?  If not, which revision is it? have you tried it with G-rex?)

@Amijim - I'm already using rev 6.8 with 3.1 roms, but trying to use the micronik board in zorro 2 mode with the Blizzard PPC (until I can afford a cyberstorm PPC and an A4000)

@Amiga1260 - I think I'm already using rev 1d4, but I'll double check. I'll check the link though, thanks.

sigh, still no SCSI  :-?
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Re: Micronik z3i busboard with onboard scsi
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2005, 03:48:05 PM »
Hi, tried a rev 1b motherboard, pain in the @rs replacing the motherboard into the power tower, and still no scsi.  :-(  am giving up on it for christmas now I think.  Any more suggestions?
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