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Re: Cyberstorm MK III with PPC SCSI question
« on: January 30, 2006, 07:54:06 PM »
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The question I have is will the Amiga 4000 know what to do with it? I want to remove my old IDE and totaly run my OS off of the Cyberstorm's SCSI controler and not use the internal IDE at all (except for the CD rom). Will the Amiga know that the SCSI is there or do I need to have another drive conected to the inturnal IDE drive controler with the OS installed on that?

Cyberstorm PPC SCSI, like any recent SCSI implementations by phase5 (Blizzard 12x0 SCSIkit, BlizzardPPC SCSI, Cyberstorm MK x SCSI-2) are the real thing, that is they are fully autoconfig and don't need any "bootstrapping" from some IDE HDD.

Cyberstorm PPC SCSI driver in inside the flashrom so you don't need to install any drivers for it. You might want to use phase5 SCSIConfig to set the drives up, or alternatively use the latest HDToolBox (AmigaOS 3.1 one doesn't work that well with large drives though).

However, if you remove all IDE devices you'll get some delay from the IDE scsi.device probing the bus for devices that aren't there (it can be upto 30 seconds with KS 3.1). There is a HW solution, and some SW patches.
 

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Re: Cyberstorm MK III with PPC SCSI question
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2006, 08:23:19 PM »
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If I was to leave the CD rom on the IDE inturnal device will that still cause the delay?

There should be no massive delay then.