X-Surf IDE interface and hard disks

[Thomas]

xsurf_atapi.device only sees atapi devices (CD-ROM etc.)

XsurfIDE adds both, xsurf_atapi.device and scsi.device (or 2nd.scsi.device or 3rd.scsi.device or 4th.scsi.device, whichever is not yet used by other controllers).

To see a harddrive on the X-Surf, you should scan scsi.device. AFAIK HDToolbox searches the 2nd, 3rd etc. variants automatically.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

I think you are following the wrong trace. "Cannot open scsi.device unit 0" does *not* mean that scsi.device is not there. It means that unit 0 is not there. And that means that scsi.device did not recognise any device on unit 0.

You say, your CD-ROM drive works with xsurf_atapi.device. If you connect it again, you will see that it works with scsi.device as well.

As mentioned above, the IDE port of the X-Surf is very limited. It may well be that all of your hard drives are incompatible with it.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

If I understand correctly, you don't have any device on the internal IDE port. So why don't you use the internal port for the CF reader ? It should be faster than the X-Surf anyway.

If you fear the boot delay when scsi.device is enabled, you can keep it disabled and use a disk-based version of it in Devs: for your CF mountlist.

You can use the rumupdatesplit program which comes with BlizKick to create disk-based modules from OS3.9's ROM Update.

Bye,
Thomas