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Offline outlawal2Topic starter

NO drives show up in HDToolbox
« on: November 19, 2009, 02:33:40 PM »
OK, I have the other thread regarding the Syquest drive, but now I am not certain it is specifically a Syquest issue...

I bought a GVP 68030 combo SCSI card with 16 MB..  No disks / software
I also bought a ROM switcher with 1.3 and 3.1 ROMS as well as Worbench 3.1.  

So I replaced the 2.0 ROM with the switcher and it works great... I removed the Amiga SCSI hardcard that was installed...   I then installed the GVP card and it is faaast.  Had zero issues with the card and sysinfo shows it as very fast and the 16Mb of memory shows as it should.

I then re-installed Workbench with the 3.1 disks and it offered to upgrade my existing install and replace any files necessary.  No issues with the upgrade and restarted and it boots from my HD fine.  I can also get it to boot from my 2 MEG CF card as well.  

The problem is that I can't get HDToolbox to see ANY drives when I run it now. Since this is my only Amiga, I need to be able to see the SCSI drives so I can format other CF cards, SCSI drives and hopefully Syquest drives.

Any ideas on why I can't see SCSI drives in HDToolbox?  (Even though I can boot from SCSI?)
 

Offline Thomas

Re: NO drives show up in HDToolbox
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2009, 03:07:34 PM »
You need to configure HDToolbox to use the driver of the new card. Select its icon, choose "icon -> information" from the menu, find the tooltype which reads SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=scsi.device and change it to read SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=name_of_the_new_driver. If it's surrounded by brackets, remove the brackets.

I don't know the actual name for the GVP SCSI. Probably something like gvpscsi.device. You can use programs like FindDevice or Scout to find out.

Offline outlawal2Topic starter

Re: NO drives show up in HDToolbox
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2009, 03:29:36 PM »
Quote from: Thomas;530295
You need to configure HDToolbox to use the driver of the new card. Select its icon, choose "icon -> information" from the menu, find the tooltype which reads SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=scsi.device and change it to read SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=name_of_the_new_driver. If it's surrounded by brackets, remove the brackets.

I don't know the actual name for the GVP SCSI. Probably something like gvpscsi.device. You can use programs like FindDevice or Scout to find out.


Thank you sir!   I will try that this evening and let you know how it goes...  Much appreciated..
 

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Re: NO drives show up in HDToolbox
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2009, 10:13:12 PM »
Hi,
or you can open a cli/shell and type :

hddtoolbox  gvpscsi.device        (or the right device name)

and enjoy.
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