Installing 060 ppc

[Audun]

Hey folks

I've been attempting to install my csppc card on my a4k. I have a scsi harddrive hooked up to the csppc, and it won't let me boot from this hd until I have installed the 060/ppc drivers, or at least that's what I think- it gurus in mid-boot.

Soo, I boot from the 3.1 floppy. Try to run the installer, but then it will only attempt to install the drivers on the workbench diskette no matter what destination I choose for the installation.

I tried using RAD, but no go since I can't run ed to edit the file to make it bigger so I could copy workbench onto it.

I would appreciate any helpful suggestions to get this installation done! Maybe someone could email me an edited version of RAD? It's located on storage, devs-dosdrivers. I would need the file to have the "hicyl" value at "160". Please, if someone could email it to my spam account: pcmciahomie@hotmail.com

Thanks for reading!

[Flashlab]

If you have the libs on a disk you could just boot without startup-sequence and manually copy the files to the libs directory.

[Robert17]

The Trick with the CSPPC is to boot from the 3.1 workbench disk first, then insert the install disk. For some reason, without the correct libs, it won't boot from the install disk, but it will from the Workbench disk :-)

Robert

[Audun]

Flashlab:

tried that, it doesn't recognize any commands when I boot without startup sequence. I can't browse the harddrive, use copy, loadwb, etc.


Robert:

Man you got my hopes up! That's exactly what happened, the install disk gurus but the wb 3.1 diskette boots just fine. However when I boot with wb3.1 floppy and then switch to the install disk the ppc 'systemdisk' 060 installer still prompts for the workbench 3.1 floppy, and when I insert it starts to write to it and then whines that it is full etc. Are you sure there is nothing else you did to make this install work ?

[lopos]

You need to tell HDToolbox to use the CSPPC HD controller to mount the SCSI HD.
- open a cli
- type in 'HDToolbox cybppc.device
that should load HDToolbox with your SCSI HD mounted

[spirantho]

You should use the Phase 5 HD tools, not the OS3.1 one, as it doesn't like the controller (or the >4Gig size or something, I forget). Anyway, use SCSIConfig and UnitControl I think the programs are. They're on the CSPPC disk(s) somewhere.

If you have a later version of HDToolbox you do indeed need to run it from a Shell as:
Shell> sys:system/HDToolbox cybppc.device
(assuming it's in Sys:System of course!)

[zipper]

As Phase5 tools use their own tricks and differ from HDToolbox, it's best to at least not to mix them. I had no bigger problems with Blizzard 2060 and HDToolbox 3.1, neither with CSPPC and HDToolbox 3.5/3.9. The problem with 4 GB and 3.1 doesn't depend on the controller, the first contender is the filesystem used.

[zipper]

Some in-depth info and tools for HD problems: http://web.archive.org/web/20050215015854/http://home.earthlink.net/~jdow/indexamiga.html

[Audun]

The harddrive is already mounted though, I tried mounting it again in the p5 scsi tools. Still no luck, it keeps asking for the wb 3.1 floppys

The hd doesn't get detected in hdtoolbox nor hdinstall, only the p5 scsi thing.

Any ideas?

[lopos]

 You need to tell HDToolbox to use the CSPPC HD controller to mount the SCSI HD.
- open a cli
- type in 'HDToolbox cybppc.device
that should load HDToolbox with your SCSI HD mounted

Have you tried this?

[Audun]

Yes, no luck

[lopos]

What does it say when you type in a CLI -->HDtoolbox cybppc.device?
On my A4000 it's showing In the interface column CYBPPC and in the Drive column my HD.

[Audun]

lmao

it wasn't harder than to copy the 3 libs from the ppc system floppy to the hd. GAH why didn't anyone say anything?! :} It's working now! (til I encounter the next problem)

Thanks anyway for trying to help, I really appreciate it :]