CompuServe Thread

Howdy, I have an A2000 with a GVP Series 2 scsi 030 board. Currently using AmigaDOS v2.1. Internally, there is a Fujitsu M2624SA 520meg scsi hard drive at ID 0. Externally there is a GVP/Ricoh 600 meg Magneto-Optical scsi removable at ID 1. These two drives work well. On the Bridgeboard side (286 > ATOP 386 20mhz), there is a Adaptec 1542B scsi controller. The A: drive (5.25) and the B: drive (3.5) are connected to the Adaptec card. The C: drive is a Maxtor XT-8760S 760 meg scsi drive at ID 0. An old plan which I could never follow thru, was to move the Ricoh scsi cable from the Amiga side & connect it to the PC side. Seemed like a good plan at the time. However I could not make it happen. Last week I decided to give it another try, getting into serious 'mucking about' mode. Several hours later, I got the Ricoh working on the 'other side'. The weird results are… C: drive = Ricoh = ID 2 D: drive = Maxtor = ID 1 A: drive = need to boot from floppy since C: is empty There is no way to keep the Maxtor as C: with ID 0 and having the Ricoh connected as well at ID 1. Questions: ——— While I was using the Ricoh cartridges on the Amiga side, they were formatted with fastprep. Data was stored on the RDB. Is it possible for the Adaptec card to be sensing something from the RDB and affecting how it is installing the 2 scsi drives? Does a PC format/fdisk, overwriten the RDB? Should a lower boot priority have been used while using fastprep? Should the disks have been unpreped first on the Amiga side? ——— So currently I have 3 MO sides (900 megs~) formatted and ready to use on the PC side. Windows v3.1 does not like operating out of drive D:. Had to answer to a few requesters the first time I tried to start it. All system configs were based on the C: drive path. I believe that havoc will rain the next time I try to run Windows 🙂 Any insight would be appreciated…