BlizzPPC SCSI damaged?

[Brian]

Hello all

I'm having trouble getting the BlizzardPPC SCSI to work and wonder if someone out there might be able to help me. This is the first time I use the SCSI on board the BlizzardPPC card and I have no manual for it so I don't know where to start trouble shooting this baby. The story goes like this...

I've converted my A1200 into a Mikronik tower with Zorro2 bussboard and today it was time for the BPPC to enter the tower aswell. It was a bit of hassle before I got the card to sit correctly in the CPU slot. Attached the SCSI cable to the SCSI units, set their ID's and terminated the last unit. Started the computer and the computer made a quick reset and after that started WB and it found the units on blizzppc.device. All was fine I thought untill I did a reset and the drives was gone. Powered off and on again and the drives was there. That was weird I though. Powered off and on and went in the early startup menu and found the SCSI drives there, so booted but the drives was now gone. Checked what devices was active on the system and found that blizzppc.device was now also gone. Powered off and on again and now the SCSI chain wouldn't even do the initial reset of the system and I couldn't find the SCSI units in early startup menu no more. I did try Esc at startup but that just makes my 1084 screen flicker like mad and I didn't get around to use a RGB->VGA converter to see if it might run doublescan or something... and as I don't have a manual I don't know what to do even if I could read the screen.

So there's where I am atm... not much fun and I don't have the slightest idea what it could be other than the SCSI chip have gone byebye :-(. Any help is extremly appriciated cause I realy need SCSI on this system!

[Dragster]

Hi:

I've had scsi problems before with a blizzardppc too, not like this though. Maybe you should reflash the board. If the scsi chip is damaged, it probably wouldn't work at all and your system would NOT boot unless you pressed 's' to disable the scsi. I think the flashupdate files are on DCE's website.

Hope that helps,

Dragster

[amiga1260]

Use a Workbench disk to boot your Amiga and then use a copy of your install disk and change your tooltypes of hdtoolbox from scsi.device to blizzpppc.device. And run hdtoolbox to scan your SCSI-devices. If this does not worke you have to flash your Blizzardppc card and look here for the flashupdate: http://www.dcecom.de/downloads.html.

[Brian]

At first it did show upp under HDToolbox when I changed DEVICE to blizzppc.device and I did manage to both read, partision and format the SCSI drives and I found blizzppc under devices in the good old SysInfo tool but the blizzppc.device would then dissapear from the system after a reboot at first and then all together after a while.

Is the Flash chip perhaps at fault and if so wouldn't this meen I will have to ReFlash the card over and over again, more and more frequently untill it finaly gives up compleatly?