2090A & Quantum 105S
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Anyone,
HHHHHEEEEELLLLPPPP!!!!! I just bought a Quantum Pro Drive 105S and
I already have a 2090A controller card and I'm having trouble making them
talk. The controller doesn't seem to recognize the drive. I've tried
several different configurations for the mountlist entry but none seem to
work. Th either fails immediately or fails after about a minute (with the
rive light barely flickering) I hooked the drive up to a 2091 and preped,
partitioned and formatted it with no prob, but with my 2090A its just not
happening. It's the only drive I have hooked up to the board but I'm at the
end of my rope . BTW the jumpers on the drive (bot that I know what they
mean…) are set to the following:
S E W A A A
S P S 2 1 0
: I : I I :
Any assistance would be GREATLY appriciated!!!!!
Sam Reynolds
Sam, you might upload your Mountlist and I will take a look at it for you.
When I received my 105S I had a heck of a time getting it to work with my
2090 until I changed the Unit number in my Mountlist entry to 9. Apparently
it came from the factory set up as unit 7 in a SCSI chain.
John Gager
John, Thanks for the help. The drive is set to SCSI ID 0 no Parity (ie ALl
jumpers on the drive are off). Heres My MountList:
RES2: Device = hddisk.device
Unit = 2
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 6
BlocksPerTrack = 32
Reserved = 2
LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 1
Buffers = 1
BufMemType = 0 # P2: Device = hddisk.device
Unit = 2
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 6
BlocksPerTrack = 32
FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem
Reserved = 2
LowCyl = 2
HighCyl = 1018
Buffers = 30
GlobVec = -1
BuffMemType = 0
DosType=0x444F5301 #
Any further help you would be able to offer would be greatly appriciated!!!
(BTW: I don;t know if it was clear from my first message, but the drive
won't even PREP) :^(
-Sam
Sam, probably the major problem in not getting your drive to Prep was using
a Unit number of 2 in your mountlist. SCSI drives use unit numbers of 3-9
while ST-506 drives use unit numbers of 1 and 2. Also in the AmigaDos 1.3
manual it states that the first partition must be a auto-mounted normal file
system partition (DH2:). Here is the mountlist that I would try:
RES2: Device = hddisk.device
Unit = 3
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 6
BlocksPerTrack = 32
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 1
Buffers = 1
BufMemType = 0
#
DH2: Device = hddisk.device
Unit = 3
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 6
BlocksPerTrack = 32
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 2 ; HighCyl = 3
Buffers = 1
BufMemType = 0
#
P2: Device = hddisk.device
Unit = 3
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 6
BlocksPerTrack = 32
FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 4 ; HighCyl = 1018
Buffers = 30
Stacksize = 4000
GlobVec = -1
BufMemType = 0
DosType=0x444F5301
#
Hope this helps out and gets you up and running!
John Gager
Sam,
Try removing all the jumpers. The EP jumper is "Enable Parity" and
the 2090 series can't handle this. Also, the first drive should be SCSI ID
of 0 (although that's not absolutly necessary…it's a good idea) so the
'A' jumpers should all be out.
Don
Sam,
Oh…by the way, on the A2090, SCSI ID 0 would be UNIT 2.
Don
DOn, I tried what you said and it still doesn't work. I left my MountList
in a message reply to #110050 from John Gager. If you could take a look and
see if anything looks wrong I'd appriciate it! Thanks!
-Sam
Sam,
Well…the next thing to check is the cable…this presumes the
drive is known to be a good drive. Make sure the cable is properly
oriented (pin 1 is going to the right place) and properly connected.
Don