Amiga 3000 Hard Drive issue... quantum xp32150

[cbcvenice]

Quantum atlas 2.1 gig probs.

Amiga 3000

http://www.alyon.org/InfosTechniques/informatique/drives/quantum/scsi/xp32150.html

recieved a used quantum xp32150 that had been in an SGI system.  Took out 40meg hd in A3000 and went to put this one in and format to put workbench 2.04 and all I get is a white screen upon bootup.... HD led light active, and no diskette reader activity.  Any help would be appreciated.

I set Id to 6 with jumpers and put jumper on for termination enabled.  

Oh yeah, No other Scsi devices hooked up.

Thank you very much.


I have feeling you will be saying WD chip version 8...  Am I right?

 :-o

[cbcvenice]

Sorry for delay in reply here...
The Skinny so far,
A3000 with 2.04 Rom chips on motherboard and workbench 2.04 loaded on quantum 40mgb prodrive HD. Computer works fine when just the original HD.  I purchased a PC scsi card and "dual HD scsi cable" ($7.00) and am trying to set up a 2.1gb Quantum Atlas xp32150 as second HD with said cable (replaced original a3000 single HDscsi cable.  The goal is to format the 2.1gb and install fresh amiga operating system on it.  The problem I believe I have is that the 2.1 was in a Silicon Graphics machine (it may still have operating software on on it from the SGI)with scsi id 6 and no termination set on it.  I put terminator jumper on it and change the id to "2" with another jumper, but Amiga 3000 will not get past a "white  or grey" screen with this arrangement.
The thing I am not sure about is what to do about termination on original 40mg quantum prodrive...some documentation I ran accros says it has no terminator, but a resistor....

Any more help on this would be appreciated.  Lastly, is it really worth going to Amiga OS 3.1, 3.5, 3.9 for this A3000/16 with 2meg chip and 4meg fast ram?

Thanks again! Keep Smilin'

[cbcvenice]

Alrighty.... looks like I might be in business.  Currently Low -level formating Atlas 2.1gb drive on amiga...

Solution was to take the wierd resistors/terminators (3 of them) of the original hard drive (40mg quantum) and then also to place "spin-up" jumper on the Atlas 2.1 gb Hd....

So, next question.... Once I have drive recognized and usable, should I leave in the configuration I have it, or change the atlas 2.1gb  to boot first with workbench and how to go about doing this... I have all orignal disks for the system etc....    

Lastly (for this series today), Say I want to go about moving amiga software to and from systems via the Atlas 2.1gb HD i.e. Amiga to Athlon 2800 win xp pro and back.  Is this possible with WinUAE on PC with the scsi card I recieved?

Thanks again.  Keep Smilin'  :roll:

[cbcvenice]

Well, looks like I will be placing the tekram scsi card into my AMD2800 pc system and try to format Atlas drive there...

Amiga 3000 recognizes this 2nd drive (atlas) and lets me identify it, but low level format doesnt work...  Maybe the "spin up" jumper shouldn't be on the atlas and "sync" should be on instead?  
I have a suspicion that this Atlas drive is Dead. :-(

It sure was hot to the touch after I tried the format.

Will keep ya posted..