Setting up a Kupke Golem SCSI Controller A2000 *help*

[MozzerFan]

Maybe I'm asking the obvious, but the amiga hardware database says the card has a disable switch at the back of the card. Maybe it's disabled.

[MozzerFan]

What if you change it to scsi3.device and press Scan?

[MozzerFan]

When you boot from floppy, and you start the partitioning program (Golem-Part), it looks for fast1.device. Change that to scsi3.device and press scan. The box where fast1.device is shown is editable.
The device driver name for the golem scsi card should be scsi3.device.

[MozzerFan]

You might want to try to prep it with HDToolbox. Use the DEVICE=scsi3.device tooltype with HDToolbox.

[MozzerFan]

Sh!t. Of course I mean the SCSI_DEVICE_NAME tooltype of HDtoolbox. set this to scsi3.device.
If HDToolbox doesn't work you might want to try HDinstTools.

[MozzerFan]

Select the HDToolbox icon and select Icon information from the Workbench menu. Goto the tooltypes box and type in the following:

SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=scsi3.device

save your changes by pressing the save button.

Now start hdtoolbox. Does it find your harddisk?

[MozzerFan]

something happened: it appearas above STATUS -> Unsupported

Have you changed the DEVICE tooltype of hdinsttools to scsi3.device (check for DEVICE=scsi3.device in tooltypes)
If so after you started hdinsttools, select the drive and click the setup drive button. Report back what it shows there. BTW what is the size of the harddisk you're trying to prep?

[MozzerFan]

I removed the semicolon and started the HDTools ,made scan and can olnly see PIC 0 TID 6 LUN 0 STATUS Unsupported.

Can you click the setup drive button or is it greyed out?
If it's greyed out, you probably can't prep it with hdinstools.

Try again with hdtoolbox. Make sure the following is in the tooltypes of hdtoolbox:
SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=scsi3.device

Here I am using KS2.0 but in the floppy install disk of this Card ( that is all in German ) I read KICKSTARTEN 1.3 ? WHY?

That's probably because the install disk contains a version of WB1.3.

To make it clear, I don't have a golem scsi card myself.
Because I'm trying to help you out, I checked out the install disk and that's how I figured out that the Golem device driver is named scsi3.device.

BTW Amiga hardware database says that harddisks greater that 2 GB can't be prepped with the installation floppy, and that in such a case HDToolbox must be used.

[MozzerFan]

No problem !

But the tooltype for HDToolbox should be:

SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=scsi3.device. Please remove the DEVICE=scsi3.device.

DEVICE=scsi3.device is the tooltype for HDInstools.

[MozzerFan]

What type of quantum drive is it? Can you look on the disk to see if there is any more info on it? Maybe if you know the exact type of the drive you can search with google to find some info about the sectors, blocks per track etc.

BTW have you tried also with the 4GB drive?

[MozzerFan]

I doubt it. The Golem partitioning program also wouldn't read the drives configuration, that's why you got all the question marks when you tried.

Like I said, look if there's any info on the harddisk itself. For example, I have an old quantum scsi hd lying around, and it has a sticker on it that says: Quantum ProDrive LPS and on the side there is a little sticker with 105 s on it. If I do a google search with this info, I get a link to a site that gives me info about the drives geometry (sectors/heads etc).
Because HDToolbox can't read the info from the drive, you have to enter these values manually, so any more info about the drive type is welcome.

Also you can try and see if HDToolbox recognizes the ibm 4gb harddisk correctly.

[MozzerFan]

I don't think the card is broken. You just have to know what values to enter when you install the harddisk.

[MozzerFan]

What do you mean. You have info about the blocks per track, heads and sectors of the 4gb drive?
If so, then you have to manually enter these values if you press the install drive button.

[MozzerFan]

Just read on the Amiga hardware database that the Golem does not support the complete SCSI protocol. I wonder if that's the reason why you can't read the harddisks configuration when you try to install the drive.

To be honest, I really think this card isn't of much use. The scsi controller of the a2000 is much better.

If you still want to make it work with your harddisks, you have to provide some more info about the drives.