A590 and SCSI drives

[dvvrue95]

I have a A500 (WB 1.3) and something called a KCS power board fitted in the expansion slot together with a A590 hard drive unit. When I first opened the A590 up the WD XT drive was us and I decided to replace it with a SCSI drive, since the controller appears to support SCSI. I fitted an old? Connor CP30540 549Meg 50 pin drive.
I have tried to use the Amiga A590 Hard Disk setup disk to prep (low level format?) this disk after using the disk spec to set up the disk as 492 Meg capacity (by varying the number sectors/track) [I did this because the A590 has version 6 roms which apparently can only handle up to 512Meg disks]. I rxd an error messge = Error 32 on device open
If I type Why at the CLI I get the response :-
the last command did set a return code
Also after rebooting the system I have two new icons :-
CDH0: ####
CDH1: ####
however if I double click either I just get the response from WB :-
icons have no default tool
What does all this mean?
I believe the Connor disk is fine but I dont seem to be able to communicate with it via the A590 setup disk.
Can any one help, am I trying to do the impossible or is there other hard drive prep softwre available?

Hope to hear from you, will not be able to pick up any replies, ideas etc for about 24 hours.

[Thomas]

Also after rebooting the system I have two new icons :-
CDH0: ####
CDH1: ####

This means you (or the previous owner of the HDD) successfully created two partitions.

however if I double click either I just get the response from WB :-
icons have no default tool

This means the partitions are not formatted. Click a partition once and choose "Initialise" from the menu to format it.

is there other hard drive prep softwre available?

Try HDInstTool from Aminet. It works on Kick 1.3. You might need to adjust its tooltypes to match the name of the A590's SCSI driver. The default is scsi.device. I don't know if there are different names for the XT and the SCSI part of the A590.

Bye,
Thomas

[dvvrue95]

Hi Thomas,
sorry its taken so long to come back on your comments, but ... the good news is I seem to have most things working OK and that was using the A590 HD install disk.

Part of the problem I was having not only related to my lack of knowledge about Amiga DOS, but also I appear to have a mouse with a VERY sticky right button, hence when I "right clicked" to initialise absolutely nothing happened. Any way I now have a A500 complete with a 490M scsi HD and 2M of ram running WB 1.3 together with a KCS power board with 1/2M ram, battery backed up clock running MS DOS.
Thanks for your help, your thoughts put me in the right direction.

Ehmmmm now what can we do with this machine?

[KThunder]

take over the world :evilgrin:

sorry for totally jumping in on your thread, a few years back after my 2nd a1000 died i was looking for a new machine i considered a500 because i like the wedge and i saw one of those power boards on ebay
i thought it would be cool to get just to goof around with. im still kinda looking for a 386 bridgeboard for my 3000