10 November 2008, 14:11 | #1 |
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Just got an A3000, need help with SCSI HDD and CD-ROM
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I've just got myself an Amiga 3000 with 12MB RAM and 120MB HDD. The internal 120MB drive is working, and the A3000 boots up happily into Workbench 2.1 I was given a known working 2GB SCSI HDD too, which I want to put in the A3000 (and take the 120MB out) but the A3000 just will not recognise it. The drive is configured to SCSI ID 4 (I think) and has been tested in my old PC (which has SCSI card) and it works in that, but HDToolBox doesn't even recognise it, nor does third party utils (HDInstTools). Any ideas? The drive is a Seagate Barracuda. Also, another issue. I have four different eternal SCSI CD-ROMs, one of which is a definate known worker (it works on my A1200 with Squirrel SCSI PCMCIA card) but yet again, not detected by the A3000 at all! Any ideas? My known working one I have tried on SCSI ID 0 and the other settings up to SCSI ID 6 (although the internal HDD is SCSI ID 6 so didn't expect it to work on 6) I've tried with and without a terminator connected but still no joy! I'm running out of ideas and started to get frustrated! |
11 November 2008, 12:59 | #2 |
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11 November 2008, 13:39 | #3 | |
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Early versions had troubles with "bigger drives" |
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11 November 2008, 14:17 | #4 | |
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Also, I can't get a known working SCSI CD-ROM to work, connected to the SCSI connector at the back. |
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11 November 2008, 14:53 | #5 | |
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Is the term. resistor packs still mounted on the motherboard for terminating the SCSI connector at the back? Can't remember if you can shut of the SCSI stuff thru the SCSI settings in the A3000 nvram... Was some time ago I fiddled with my A3000 settings..hardware, but I started her up for the first time a week ago after being stored for 2 years |
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11 November 2008, 15:07 | #6 | |
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I assuming you get a disk with a program on it that can do that sort of thing!?! As the A3000 was given to me, I kind of doubt that the term. resistor packs will be there, but not 100% sure. To be brutally honest, I'm tempted to stick my spare Buddha IDE in and use an IDE drive ..... I know how to use IDE properly |
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11 November 2008, 15:27 | #7 | |
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http://m68k.aminet.net/package/disk/misc/SCSI-Prefs Another one: http://m68k.aminet.net/package/util/misc/SCSIPrefsMUI Try and get the SCSI working..IDE is just a huge CPU hog on an Amiga |
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