BlizzardSCSI problems..

[Leifern]

Well, no i've just about had it.. I bought a bunch of nice stuff for my Amiga (Mediator, Voodoo3, Networkcard and E/Box tower). But now nothings working... Again...!

Before removing everything from my CRAPPY InfinitivTower i managed to mess up my 3.9 installation by fiddling around with my filesystem and maxtransfer-settings. However, the evertrusty EmergencyDisk always fixes those thing with a nice fresh installation, so i didn't think any more of it.

I took everything out and put it into my new tower (the MB, ZIV, 1260&SCSI, PIV&Concierto) And set out to boot from my EmDisk. But i got this wierd error saying: Can't open "1230scsi.device" unit 1. Which would be my CD-rom. I have no idea what this means, so i figured that there was either something wrong with my disk or with my SCSI controller (which seams wierd). But none of the SCSI devices show up in the BOOTmenu or when booting from any Wokbench. However the RAM is always there.. Both the ram connected to the 1260 and the SCSI controller.

Other then that i got a "Vector" Keyboard interface that i can't get to work either. Not with a PC or an A2000 keyboard. Anyone have one of these?

I really hope someone can help me, because i've just about had it with this constant "What just happened!??"

All the best,
Leifern

[Leifern]

Thanks for the reply.. I'll try to check the connections, but if it was a connection-problem wound't the RAM on the SCSI controller be gone as well? :-?


EDIT:

I was also thinking: Since it's unit 1 thats not found (allthough i can't see any evidence that it's found unit 0)
Couldn't there be something wrong with the SCSI chain? I don't know SCSI all that well so if there any essentials that would seem obvious, please share. Also if unit 0 (The HD) is messed up, wouldn't it have problems finding unit 1?

[Leifern]

Hi,

The drive is on the SCSI bus. I think the chain is terminated correctly, as it worked before, and i haven't changed anything. I am unable to test anything that needs a keyb. right now as the keyboard adapter doesn't work. I will try some more stuff today.

[Leifern]

I've checked which SCSI-ID it's jumpered as and it was set to 1. Also, would i be able to see it or the HD in the Boot menu? And would i see the HD still if the CDRom didn't work?
And if the SCSI-controller works, will i see it in the BootMenu, or is the accellerator and SCSI controller considered as ONE expansion? The accellerator seems to be working correctly, and the ram on the controller is there when i boot with my 3.1 disk. But none of the SCSI devices are accesable through workbench. Wouldn't the HD partitions be if the controller worked properly?

[Leifern]

By the way, the error message is given by "Cache CDFS". Don't know if it matters. I've tried using only the CDrom and setting the "terminator" jumper on the cdrom to on. So that if it wasn't terminated before, it is now, but it didn't help at all..

[Leifern]

How do i check this?

[Leifern]

I just booted from 3.1 and installed the SCSI software to the ramdisk. Tried to scan for SCSI devices using unitconfig (or something). But it didn't find the HD or the CDRom. Could this meen i have to replace the cable? Wierd that it should brake though. But once again, find it hard to believe that the SCSI-Controller is broken as long as the ram attached to it works properly.

[Leifern]

Hi,

Thanks, but it seems that all the settings are correct. The EmergencyDisk worked before so i guess that's not so strange. My RAM is working just fine. I've got 16mb (Blizzard1260) + 64mb (SCSIKit). All there, the problem is that none of the SCSI devices are recognised.

[Leifern]

Wow.. There is no CD0 in the DosDrivers directory.. No CD-Anything.. Could this be the problem?

The error message says that it cant find the Unit on the SCSI bus, but could this be because there is no DosDriver?


Thanks alot for all the help so far, people!
I have to get my baby up and running again now that ScummVm9 has been released!;-)