SetBatt Program For A3000 NVRAM

[dannyp1]

I have been trying to use this program to set my clock and SCSI settings in NVRAM on an A3000D that I just changed batteries on and the program makes no sense to me at all.  It has a DOC file but it also means nothing to me.  Has anyone used this program and it made sense to them?  I could use a little help.  Any help at all would be appreciated.    Thanks,     Dan

[beller]

Hi Danny,

I just looked at the program since I have an A3000 without a battery and I'm tired of setting the clock.  Based on the readme file for the first version on Aminet I'd stay away from the program.  It looks like all it does is modify your scsi settings.  The readme warns that this could harm your hardware and, given what it appears you're setting, you'd likely better have a full understanding of the inner workings of SCSI in order to use it.

I'd run, if all you want to do is set your clock this isn't going to do it from my read of the docs.

Bob

[matthey]

The clock you set with the SYS:Prefs/ program.
For SCSI try this...

http://aminet.net/search?query=SCSIprefs.lha

Turning on synchronous SCSI transfers makes the SCSI much faster. I recommend trying it.

[Matt_H]

Sometimes when the battery dies, the NVRAM settings can get outright corrupted rather than simply blanked - the SetBatt documentation calls this amnesia.

SetBatt a (or SetBatt -a, can't remember which) will clear things out. You can use the regular Time prefs and SCSIPrefs to fix things completely.