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Offline Thomas

Re: SCSI card reader questions....
« on: August 12, 2011, 02:11:48 PM »
Every bootable SCSI controller should be able to boot from every SCSI massstorage device. It does not matter to which connector you connect it or which SCSI ID it has, provided that you have termnation and jumpers set right.

IIRC there is a patch for HDToolbox available on Aminet to allow it to set up type 7 devices as harddrives. Or try HDInstTools. Or try to set up the SD/CF card on a PC with an USB card reader and WinUAE before you put it into the Amiga.

Offline Thomas

Re: SCSI card reader questions....
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2011, 02:39:21 PM »
A LUN is a logical unit inside the physical device. Each SCSI device can have one or more LUNs. For example a 6-way CD changer has 6 LUNs, one for each CD slot. Whenever you access one of the LUNs, the changer will move the CD from the respective slot into the CD drive so that you can read it.

In AmigaOS the LUN is usually specified in the tens place of the unit number. So if your device has SCSI ID 2, LUN 0 is unit 2, LUN 1 is unit 12, LUN 2 is unit 22 and so on.

HDToolbox actually does not know about LUNs, it just scans the unit numbers in a specific order.