R/W errors with SCSI CD drive

[Boot_WB]

Hi moto,

I thought the unitcontrol program automatically mounted the scsi drive for you, rather than having to manually edit a mountfile?  It's been a while...
IIRC aren't there some configuration variables at the bottom of the mountlist, telling it to use diskchange interrupt, scsidirect, etc - perhaps these may need changing from the previous settings?
Either that, or you could re-install IDEfix97 and get it to mount your 1230scsi.device during the scannow section.  

The termination on the Blizzard scsi controller is hard-wired (a set of resistors soldered to the board).  These look like, erm.. skinny little caterpillars?  It's be fairly obvious if they'd been removed, as there would be a couple of lines of empty holes around here.

REgards



Rich

[Boot_WB]

Hi moto,

Have you tried increasing the number of buffers (eg to 150) in teh CDFS prefs on that drive?

[Boot_WB]

If you've got the original IDEfix97 program somewhere I'd seriously consider reinstalling it and allowing the program to pick up the drives when scanning the 1230scsi.device during installation.
I seem to remember having a similar problem on IDE - turned out I'd installed the CDrom as a scsi device rather than an atapi device.  Don't suppose that's much help here though.

[Boot_WB]

Hi moto, don't worry, I've not gone IDE-SCSI loony :crazy: I suggested IDEfix as it seems to scan all devices on all buses, and seems to do a good job of mounting them OK (imho) - including PCMCIA and scsi.

Looking at your mountlist though, there seems to be no entry for STACK=xxxx .  THIS could account for your errors on larger files.  If Amigakit was using stackattack in his startup-sequence it wouldn't hav required it in the mountlist (AFAIK) but if you don't have stackattack in your startup this would make a difference.

I suggest you try putting a line in for "stacksize      =3000" (3000 is the recommended minimum) - on my CD mountfile it is after the "dostype     =" line.