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#Hurricane'030 board

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#4072From: Kevin HollowayNov 24, 1990 10:37 PM
Could someone who has used a Hurricane 2800 accelerator board help me. I am tryying to use the SCSI controller that is built in with my Connor CP340. The drive works just fine with my HardFrame but won t won't work with the Hurricane. I can't even get it to work with the HardFrame and the Hurricane with the Hurricane disabled and the mask changed so as not to use 32-bit memory for the hard drive.
#4088From: Steven D. KapplinNov 25, 1990 1:10 PM
Kevin, I don't know what you are doing, but be sure that you mount your drive and do any BindDrivers or AddBuffers BEFORE running HurricaneConfig or AddMem32. Your hard drive mountlist should have Mask = 0x0FFFFF. As an alternative you can try Mask = 0xFFFFFF and do AddMem 1600000 16FFFFF. This latter will map the Hurricane memory outside the 68000's address space. However, AmigaBasic will not work in this case. If this doesn't work, then you might try running your hard drive off the Hurricane's SCSI controller (I believe the 2800 has the built-in SCSI, doesn't it?)
#4168From: Kevin HollowayNov 26, 1990 9:38 PM
Yes it does have a built in SCSI controller. That's the problem. I can't get that to work either.I tried pulling the SCSI boot EPROM and using the HardFrame with the mask but it didn't work. Thanks.
#4106From: Lloyd W. Dull IIINov 25, 1990 7:56 PM
Kevin, The HardFrame is a DMA host adapter, and you need a non-DMA design host adapter in order to use the Imtronics Hurricane accelerator. ICD's AdSCSI and the Trumpcard Professional will work. The ICD is faster and cheaper, in my opinion. Lloyd
#4170From: Kevin HollowayNov 26, 1990 9:40 PM
Thanks but the built in controller should work. I don't think I need anoter controller though. Thanks for the reply.