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Offline PaSha

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Re: A4000T funky floppy cable
« on: January 17, 2004, 11:16:43 AM »
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While on the subject, A4000T users will know that the motherboard SCSI and IDE controllers use 2nd.scsi.device and scsi.device
On mine, scsi.device is for the IDE controller, and 2nd.scsi.device is the SCSI controller.  Are they ALWAYS like that, or do they change over on some machines/setups??


No, they are not always like that. I don't use IDE at all, so my SCSI is scsi.device, on the IDE I have a self-made 'terminator' to avoid the waiting time.
IIRC the controller with the drive with the highest boot priority gets scsi.device or something like that.
Anyways, I remeber reading about it somewhere on the net, do a search and you should find something.
Also, when I was using a A4000 D with a A4091 controller, the A4091 was scsi.device since i didn't use any IDE drives.

-Paul
 

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Re: A4000T funky floppy cable
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2004, 12:03:03 PM »
Have a look at http://aminet.back2roots.org/pub/aminet/hard/hack/IDE_Killer.lha

Two 4.7 kOhm resistors from pin 39 to pins 3 and 5 respectively. This somehow makes the IDE controller immediately understand that there is nothing there.

-Paul