Squirrel SCSI slowdowns, oh the heavist ever...

[Legerdemain]

This is so strange. I've just installed my old Squirrel SCSI adapter and a 2xSCSI CD-Rom in my A1200. Problem is that while transfering data the system runs at such low speeds even an A500 at 7mHz would run faster...

I haven't yet tried out to disable my 060...  but before, while running with a Blizzard 1230 this problem never occured. Something has gone wrong, and whatever it is (I will probably find the source of the problem in just a couple of minutes) I haven't got the slightest what to do about it...   not that it really is that big of a deal, since this is just a temporarily solution until my Mirage arrives along with an ordinary CD-Rom...  but annoying it is, still.

[Legerdemain]

Hm, but I find it utterly strange that this problem didn't occur before I put in my 060-board...?

[Legerdemain]

Now I'm done for. Tried updating using them patches. Nothing works at all now. It just hangs. It all thanks to the squirrelscsi.device.

Here is the deal:

1. I forgot to back up my original squirrelscsi.device while updating.

2. A friend of mine managed to drop a can of cider on the disks that were lying on the table, just an hour ago. No drivers to re-install I have.

3. Looked up if I could find the original disk on the net (apparently I have some kind of cheap Squirrel SCSI, the interface is entirely black with no logo and the disk are entitled "Power CD Rom Disk 1" and "Power CD Rom Disk 2" with a picture of some man holding a lightning in his left hand.

4. Now I am completely without a CD-Rom.

4. Joy.

5. Joy.

6. Joy.

7. Joy.

8. Joy.

9. Joy.

10. Joy.

[Legerdemain]

Well, I am back online with the CD again. Installed it all from the latest SquirrelSCSI disk and it worked fine.

Though, it worked fine in the meaning "working". Still everything runs in slowmotion. The 060-version does not work... at startup the screen turns grey and after 30 seconds or so it all crasches. The "new" version from '97 crasches instantly.

The installdisk I downloaded was version 1.12. Previously I had 1.10. Not sitting by the computer so I can't look up the versionnumbers of the files at the moment, though.

Oh, well, just some more weeks and I'll be using a regular IDE/atapi CD-Rom through the SCSI Kit IV...  I won't be bothering about this very issue anymore. Everything I needed to install from CD I have installed by now (it took about 4 hours to install Wasted Dreams, some 500mb I think it was... I mean, even at 2x speed it shouldn't take more than an hour...  not with SFS, not with SquirrelSCSI... not at all...).

Thanks for all of your help, though!