Flyer Drives not showing on Workbench screen

[rcgrabbag]

I'm trying to configure an A4000T with a Flyer board. The Flyer HDTools recognizes the three SCSI drives that I installed and I was able to test and format them, but they don't show on the Workbench screen. It looks like the drivers for the drives are in Devs/DosDrivers folder, but I'm not sure if the settings are right. All I see when I get the Information on the drivers is Activate=1. Shouldn't there also be a reference to the SCSI ID as well?

[rcgrabbag]

Yes, that was it! I edited the DOSDriver files (FA0, FB0 & FC0) and found the line that had "CHAIN=x,UNIT=x" values and changed the UNIT=x to the SCSI address of the respective drive (A,B,C), rebooted, and voila! The drives appeared on the Workbench screen. Thanks, Matt!

[rcgrabbag]

Someday maybe, but I'm sort of a vintage tech fan and wanted to build a Toaster/Flyer system in true retro fashion. But for future reference, would that require some sort of SCSI to IDE converter for the flash drive modules?

[rcgrabbag]

Glad that worked, but...

 I'm not sure exactly how things work internally, so I'd suggest not having Fx0 be a unit other than 0, just to be safe. Something might get confused otherwise. So use, for example, Fx3 if your drives are jumpered to ID 3 (or rejumper the drives on each chain - I assume you have just one on each - to unit 0).

Ah, yes, I see what you're saying. So, I removed the driver files that I edited (the original versions are still in Storage/DOSDrivers) and started over. Flyer drives A, B and C are on SCSI addresses 1, 2, and 3 respectively, so, I grabbed driver FA1, FB2 and FC3 from Storage/DOSDrivers and copied them to Devs/DOSDrivers and it worked without any file editing. Flyer drives show up on Workbench just fine. I did open the driver files just to see what was different in them. I noticed TWO references to the UNIT number, and both reflected the same SCSI address. When I edited the driver files previously, I only changed ONE of the UNIT values, so even though it worked, I might have screwed something up if I attempted to use it for any video work. Nice catch, Matt! That probably saved me a bunch of headaches going forward.

[rcgrabbag]

Yeah, I got ya. I could have made them all ID 0, but on separate chains. In my case, FA0, FB0, and FC0 drivers where installed by default, so it would seem as though that is a recommended config.

[rcgrabbag]

The IDE/CF adapters are pretty cheap on ebay, like a few bucks, but the SCSI/IDE adapters are considerably more expensive (~50 bucks). Anyone know of a cheaper source?

And does anyone here have a Flyer setup using CF/IDE -> IDE/SCSI -> Flyer combo?

[rcgrabbag]

Thanks for the link. Very informative thread. Those SCSI/IDE adapters are expensive. I'm currently using three refurbed 50GB Seagate drives I got for $19 each, but they do make things run hotter. Incidentally, I got all the drives sorted out and are now all on ID 0 on chains A, B & C (FA0, FB0 and FC0).