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Re: Can I Step Thru?
« on: September 16, 2012, 08:37:06 PM »
Quote from: MiAmigo;708390
Note on the Catweasel: These mounting issues (pun intended!) are most likely separate, the only common components being the mobo and WB, of course.

The 'weasel is really sensitive and particular about which drives it uses. So, I took the recommendation of the documentation, and got a nice set of TEACs from eBay.

They work just fine - in part. As soon as I hooked one up to the device, and re-installed the software, the drives literally clicked and hummed.

I manually mounted the floppy drive, and it responded immediately instead of just laying there like an unhappy spouse on a honeymoon!

The drive light came on, and the steady incessant 'feed me' clicking began - only...it doesn't appear on WB. If I try to re-mount it, I get a message that the floppy is already mounted.

Whenever I try t invoke or install multi-disk, I get fatal errors and crashes. (Could it be a version issue?)

Meanwhile, back  on the G-Force scuzzy chain...
The hard drives and its partitions mount, usually after a soft-reset.

The CD, on that same chain, does not, even though it is present in G-Force's configuration apps, FastPrep and ExpertPrep.


Do you have the scsi chain set up right? i would recommend using the lower device numbers from 0. set the boot HD's at these and then the cdroms etc later. Make sure ONLY the last device on the scsi cable(irregardless of what scsi ID it is) is terminated. The drives on earlier connectors should not be terminated.

If possible start with a basic HD and get stuff installed and then add in each item on the chain,taking care to keep termination right.Double termination(2 devices on the chain terminated) can cause as much trouble as lack of termination.

You do realize that you must install a cd filesystem of some sort, there is not one active on a default workbench 3.1 install. You can try amicdfs from aminet, asimcdfs,or the original 3.1 cdfs (just make sure the boot disk has cd.filesystem in L: ad copy cd0: from storage to devs/dos drivers. Edit the CD0 icon info for the unit number the cdrom is set to and to use the gvpscsi.device. Or use cachecdfs if you install os3.9.

Mech