RocTec RocHard harddrive

[melott]

I have a RocTec RocHard harddrive for my
A500. I bought it new many years ago.
I have never used the external scsi port.
I now want to add a external CD Rom but
I find the port doesn't work. I would think it
should, there are no problems otherwise.
I am wondering if a dip switch or jumper
needs to be set. The manual doesn't say anything
about this, and I assumed for all this time that
the port would work.
Does anyone know anything about this??
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mel Ott
 :-?

[melott]

Hi......
This is a SCSI unit, I bought it new and went
for the SCSI option. Actually I just replaced the
50 meg drive with a 1 gig conner.
It is not an IDE unit. Its just that i've never tried
to use the 25 pin external port. I just assumed
that it would work.
There is an unexplained jumper inside and the
dip switchs on the back. I am wondering if one
or more has to be set to activate the external
port. The manual is 'crap'.

Mel Ott
 :-?

[melott]

Hi......
I'm using CDX for the CD Rom.....
but thats not the problem, The port doesn't
reconize anything SCSI. (It seems to be dead)
SCSI Formatter (software) sais there is NO
device attached to the port.
Is it possible this is actually an IDE port??
I wouldn't think it would be since I choose
SCSI option when I bought it new.
Does anyone know if 'RocTec' is still around?
If so maybe I could get some info from them.

Mel Ott

[melott]

I have the origonal software. I even tried hooking
up an external harddrive and the software doesn't
see it either. I don't know ..... the port just seems
dead. I have a buyer for this unit and he doesn't
seem to mind that I'm not able to make the port
work, but I don't like selling it this way . I would
like to know it is in good working order.
The internal drive works fine, a 1 gig conner SCSI.
And there is no problem with the installed ram.
But if the external SCSI port isn't working then
that limits any expansion.
I think I'm going to have to let it go like this,
I don't know what else to try.

Mel Ott

[melott]

On the drive I had, it had the 25 pin SCSI port
on the back 'BUT' I didn't have much luck getting
it to work.
I suspect that the SCSI controller would only
reconize one (1) device. I did get it to work when I
didn't have a drive inside, so only one device was
connected to the controller. With a drive inside I
couldn't get it to reconize a second drive connected
to the external port.
Also I would guess you will have a problem with
drives bigger than 2 gig.  The drive has to be installed
using the RocHard format disk which is in OS 1.3
and uses the Old File System. With some playing
around you could probably get the 'FastFileSystem'
on it.
I tried several other formatting utils and only the
RocHard disk worked.
'HDInstallTools' might work, I didn't try it.