A3000 Won't Boot / SCSI Termination Woes (I think...)

[motorollin]

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What makes you think it's a termination problem? If the SCSI devices are connected and terminated the same way they were before, then why would re-partitioning cause a termination problem?

Why don't you try disconnecting everything form the SCSI chain and see if you can get to the early startup screen. If you can, then connect your devices one at a time and terminate the chain, checking you can get to the early startup screen each time.

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moto

[motorollin]

Noster wrote:
If I've read right, he previously used Kick 2.x and now switched to Kick 3.1. Maybe the scsi.device has been changed and now his configuration doesn't work?

Could be! Maybe the RDB is trashed and it's causing problems under 3.1 which didn't occur unter 2.x? How about low level formatting the drive in a different machine, and then trying again with 3.1?

Noster wrote:
How about softkicking Kickstart 3.1 and using HDToolBox from OS 3.1 or softkicking Kickstart 2.0 and using HDToolBox from OS 2.0?

Can't softkick if the machine won't boot  :-(

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moto

[motorollin]

bertambala wrote:
Does the 3000 write a SCSI device table to the HDD, or is that information stored in some kind of NVRAM, or is it generated on the fly at bootup?

Kickstart probes the SCSI bus on boot and then queries each drive to check whether it is bootable. Nothing is stored anywhere.

bertambala wrote:
I was thinking that a corrupt SCSI table of sorts was written to my intenral HDD when I saved the six mystery drives in HDToolbox, and that's why my system is hanging...?

Not SCSI table, but perhaps partition table (which is stored in the RDB of the disk). You can see your backup drive and the files on it which is good, because you know your backup is ok. So I would low level format your internam disk to wipe out the RDB and partitions, then reinstall the disk in 3.1 HDToolBox, recreate partitions, and copy the data back.

I suspect this problem has occurred because you used 2.1 HDToolBox with 3.1 ROM.

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moto