Blizzard SCSI Kit Woes

[mechy]

As usual when I try to do something new, it seems like bashing my head against a solid metal plate would be less painful. But what would be the point if it was easy.

My setup: Amiga 1200 Desktop, Blizzard 1230-IV with SCSI Kit 32MB on each, using a CF for a HD, and have a subway on the clockport. Running OS3.9 using ClassicWB. I'm attempting to get it to register an external CD-Rom I acquired (Plextor PX-12TSe), but it doesn't seem to work. The card is at least working in some fashion, as the RAM is recognized, and I can check the version of 1230scsi.device, but using the scsiconfig3 tool on the blizzard disk, it doesn't even show the device in the list. Consequently, I'm at a loss as to what to do.

If you're curious how I installed, I had my CF plugged into my PC and did all the installing through WinUAE, then popped it into my 1200.

Generally the cdrom will not show up in the hdtools. Just add a cdfilesystem and configure the Unit and device and you should be up and running.

If you are under wornbench 3.1/3.1 roms, you can copy the CD0 from storage into devs:dos drivers ,then edit the icon info for the blizzard scsi device and the UNIT # you have the cdrom jumpered to. save it then reboot(or double click to activate it) and stick a cd in.. its not the best cdfs,but will get you going.


mech

[mechy]

bbond007: Yes, I have it terminated. It's an external device, but I have a terminator and it also has a termination dip switch, which is on.

mechy: I can understand the cdrom not showing up in the hdtools, but not even the scsi device itself? I suppose the program could have been written to not show the device if it doesn't have a hard drive on it, but that seems unlikely.

CDFileSystem is in L:, and I copied CD0 to DEVS: DosDrivers (you can do it in 3.9, too, and the space is to prevent an emoticon from appearing). I put in the tooltype device=1230scsi.device by highlighting it, and selecting Information from the menu. I set the drive to 2, which is CD0's default. I got nothing. The drive detects a disc is in it, and it spins, but nothing on the 1200.

As said above,you cannot double terminate a device, use either of the terminators but not both. only the last device on the chain should be terminated.

Are you sure the drive is actually jumpered to device "2"... the reason i  ask is if you simply put a jumper on "2" it would not be set to device  2..

grab ScsiQuery off aminet and check for the cdrom. If it doesn't show with that it may be you have a bad cdrom.

Understand that a jumper marked 2 on the drive is not to get device #2  in all situations. its a sort of binary setup on the jumpers:

 SCSI ID                 SCSI-2                 Jumper or switches

0                 0 0 0                 off / off / off                                                1                 0 0 1                 off / off / on                                                2                 0 1 0                 off / on / off                                                3                 0 1 1                 off / on / on                                                4                 1 0 0                 on/ off / off                                                5                 1 0 1                 on / off / on                                                6                 1 1 0                 on / on / off                                                7                 1 1 1                 on / on / on  

Mech

edit: hmm botched that chart didnt it ;/

[mechy]

So, I have got softscsi running, with the A1234.ROM included, upgrading me to 8.1. Haven't located an 8.5 ROM yet, but that can wait. As can the tinkering with BlizKick to minimize all this rebooting.

I tested the SCSI CD-ROM drive on my old DOS/Windows games machine, that I still have a SCSI card in back when I used a Zip drive. While the drive is detected by the system, if I have parity on, all it can do is show me there's a disc in the drive. With parity off, it will show me the disc name (though sometimes garbled) and will error on trying to read the contents. So I think it's safe to say the drive is borked. Hopefully I'll be able to exchange it.

wrote a book before i saw your reply.. try cleaning the lens with iso alcohol inside,it may get it working. cdroms will act strange on the bus when they cant read at times.