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Hard drive not recognised
« on: August 05, 2006, 06:13:00 PM »
I have an AD_SCSI hard drive controller in my A2000. The drive will boot fine, but when I try to format it using OS3.1 iunstall disk, it does nto recognise the drive or the id it is on.

I never have this trouble with my A3000. What am I missing here?

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Re: Hard drive not recognised
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2006, 06:28:09 PM »
If you are using HDToolBox you need to add the SCSI_DEVICE_NAME tooltype and set it to your SCSI device name (ie. icdscsi.device).
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Re: Hard drive not recognised
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2006, 06:34:53 PM »
I ask you to bear with me, I have been away fromt he amiga for a few years and am only beginning to remember how to fiddle with the startup-sequence. Would it be too mucht o ask which files to edit, where they are and what needs to be added exactly?

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Re: Hard drive not recognised
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2006, 07:42:13 PM »
Click once on the HDToolBox icon, then go to the menu and select Information. In the ToolTypes box, change the SCSI_DEVICE_NAME tooltype from scsi.device to the correct device name for your SCSI controller. Then run HDToolBox and it should pick up your drives.

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Re: Hard drive not recognised
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2006, 07:52:31 PM »
Thanks for the tip...

Now I begin my hunt for the name for ad scsi.. though I am willing to be it might be ad.scsi.

Thanks again for your help!
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Click once on the HDToolBox icon, then go to the menu and select Information. In the ToolTypes box, change the SCSI_DEVICE_NAME tooltype from scsi.device to the correct device name for your SCSI controller. Then run HDToolBox and it should pick up your drives.

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Re: Hard drive not recognised
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2006, 02:42:29 AM »
Like I said in my message, icdscsi.device (all lower case).
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Re: Hard drive not recognised
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2006, 08:43:37 PM »
That worked well, thanks


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