Problem w/ Fujitsu HD
I'm running into a problem adding a new SCSI hard drive to my system.
I'm trying to add a 540 MB Fujitsu FJ1603S harddrive to my A2000, which
already has a 105 MB Quantum drive. The controller is a Supra
WordSync Series II. (yes, I know that's quite old 🙂 I can't get the
controller
to accept and format the new drive.
I cabled the new drive to the controller at the end of the SCSI chain,
removed the termination from the Quantum (SCSI ID#0), and set
the new drive to be ID#1. The system came up fine, and the SCSI_lister
program shows the right drives at the right addresses.
The problem is that I can't get access to the new drive. When I run
SupraFormat, it sees both drives, but complains that it can't read the
configuration off the new drive. When I try to manually set the drive
type, the list of stock drive types it presents is too old to contain the
Fujitsu or anything similar, and it won't let me enter the necessary settings
directly.
When I try HDToolbox (AmigaOS 2.04), I run into more problems. The
program never has particularly liked the WordSync. In the past, it has always
presented a requester upon start-up saying something about
the drive information having changed, then when I cancel that, it shows both
the Quantum at ID 0 LUM 0 and another, "Unknown" device at
ID 0 LUM 1 (where no device exists).
Now that I added the Fujitsu, HDToolbox is still showing the exact same
thing, not even acknowledging the Fujitsu's existence at ID 1.
Thus, I have a problem. The Supra software is too old and seemingly
inflexible, and the Commodore utility doesn't like the controller.
Can anyone suggest a solution, preferably that doesn't involve buying a
new SCSI interface board?
— Matthew Rimer 73500,1167