Hello!
I've got an A3000 but I'm not that familiar with how the SCSI on it works (never had one back in the day, just now recently). At the moment I have an actual 1GB SCSI drive in there, and it's still working sort of but showing signs of old age. I'd like to replace it with a modern alternative, so I got an ACard ARS 2000-SUP adapter. I've used a similar one successfully in my A4000, but now I'm not sure how to set this up.
I put a 40GB SATA drive in the adapter, and everything does show up in HDToolBox. However, querying the drive for data always gives different results for the cylinders and other parameters, and when I try to save the changes to the drive it gives me error code -3 (command not supported, if I understood correctly). I tried partitioning the drive in WinUAE (using a SATA-USB adapter) instead, and saving changes does work there, but it's still unrecognized in the actual hardware. I have also tried another SATA drive just in case.
I realise there are going to be limitations with Kickstart / Workbench 3.1 and a big drive, but I'm perfectly happy to just get a few gigs to use. I can't easily install 3.9 if I can't do it in UAE, as I haven't got a suitable CD drive for the A3000. 3.1 floppies I do have of course.
So, which would be the right steps to get the drive supported and partitioned with these limitations? What do I need to add to 3.1 to get things going?
Thanks for any help!
So just to confirm.
On the A3000 booted in WB3.1? within HDToolbox when you go into "Change Drive Type" and select "Define New Drive Type" each time you click on "Read configuration from Drive" you get a different result in regard to Cylinders, heads and blocks per track etc?
A few questions:
Does the ACard have SCSI termination and is it set?
What SCSI Id do you have it set to?
Does it support LUNs and what options do you have?
What sort of 40GB SATA drive are you using?
I don't know if I can help but I'll give it a go.
BTW: These ACARD SCSI-SATA things are expensive...
Cheers
