A3000T Help

[mechy]

Did you ever re-visit the memory install on the motherboard? Do you want to?
The zip memory on the 3000 was considered the fastest memory on any of the amigas.

While the zorro memory worked, it isn't the fastest.

Maybe we (amiga.org) could help you get it working?

Here here: using zorro2 mem in a z3 machine downright cripples it speed wise. its horrible. not to mention the onboard 3k scsi is faster than the gvp scsi, again citing the zorro2 bottleneck.

best to populate either the zip ram and or get a good accelerator with onboard memory.

[mechy]

Did you remember to set the jumper so it gets the tick signal from video instead of the psu when you changed to a atx?

check the psu under load at the motherboard connector, its easy to insert multimeter probes in the back of the connector. use any of the blue wires for ground probe.

It sounds like a bad workbench install to me,since you duplicate the problem each time. make sure maxtransfer is set right,although most scsi controllers seem to handle this regardless.

Do all the drives have the same filesystem? ffs,sfs,pfs?

Termination could cause the odd behavior,but hard to say since you have this trouble on multiple drives.

[mechy]

I found a SATA to molex adapter and had some time to work on this this morning and I finally got it sorted. I removed all zip ram, removed 040, and all cards from the system and went back to the onboard scsi and it booted from HD first try. I will no try adding pieces back one at a time. Thank you for all the suggestions.

If you have a warpengine, populate it with 128Mb and unless you need the 16mb on the motherboard, dont worry about adding it back. the warpengine ram is just as fast as motherboard ram. Sounds like you have a plan though.
good luck.