Well, I tried every combination of ID's (nothing on the top term pins) and that seems to have no effect at all - ID seems to do nothing. I tried (like yours) jumper pins 1 and 4 (ID 0 and term) and still does the same thing. Well, maybe Mechy will see this and have an answer - at least it works! Also, 3GB partition seems to work just fine with OS2.1... I installed a few games from floppy... :razz: Thanks sooo much for you helpfulness Mike! Lemme know if anything else comes to mind...
The top 2 pins of the row of jumpers farthest away from the scsi connector end is termination-the 3 sets below are scsi ID.. put a jumper block on those 2 top pins to enable termination,which should be enabled if its the only drive on the A590. You need no other jumpers on the scsi ID pins,which will leave it device #0.
the PCD drives label shows all the settings for ID's/termination right on the drive.
The reason it is taking a long time is the 2091/590 is a slow controller,and although luns work for the most part they aren't handled very intelligently- it takes forever to scan 7 luns per scsi ID of 0-6(so 49 checks approx). A couple ways to possibly fix this are with HDtoolbox.
I am doing this from memory so i may not be overly accurate here- in the hdtoolbox tooltypes you will find and can set these values:
MAX_SCSI_LUN=5 (or 6 of you have a 6 slot reader)
MAX_SCSI_UNIT=1 (this assumes you set the scsi ID to 0 -no jumpers).
save the settings and then run hdtoolbox and save your partitions again so these take effect- i seem to think they are saved in the rdb from memory.
scsi scans from device 0 on up,so finding a drive early may help boot time.
this will give a slight speed up,but if you want access to all the slots,luns will always be slow on the A590. The gvp doesnt suffer from this.
if you want the quickest boot its best to only use the pcmcia slot with cf adapter and turn off luns.
Speeds you will see will vary quite a bit based on scsi controller,cf,sd,sm,etc card used, and filesystem used. FFS is very slow.
The a590 will be good doing 1 to 2MB in speed.
It is doubtful to exceed 4MB/s (although the manufacturer claims 4-5MB/s). i have reached 3.9MB/s using sfs and a transcend class 10 -4GB sd card in the sd slot with the card reader hooked to the cyberstorm MKIII uwscsi(with proper highbyte adapter). No idea why this was slightly faster than the cf slot.
I never recommend using hdinsttools on any amiga drives, this program creates a non standard rdb that is no longer compatible to the C= standard. I spent much time/tech help finding odd troubles users had who bought the scsicard readers because of hdinsttools.
