Scott_Busse@mindlink.UUCP (Scott Busse) (03/01/91)
Hey there Commodore folks! So far, no one out there has touched my Fujitsu "Eagle" problem, even with their ten foot pole :) Even so, I will now recap the situation : I trying to get a Fujitsu "Eagle" drive hooked up to my A2500/30 (rev.4.4 mb). This is an SMD monster hard drive, that I am interfacing to with an Adaptec ACB-5580 SCSI to SMD controller. The drive is a 475 Meg, 10 surface (20 heads!) that I have set up with a 1024 byte block size (for all intents and purposes) This block configuring is done with jumpers on a logic pcb. According to the SMD manual, the badblocks are stored in tracks 0 and 1, for what it's worth. * The Adaptec board is ANSI X3T9.2 SCSI compatable, supporting all the required commands, but it also supports an extended command set (13 more commands) that can be jumpered into effect, if required. The documentation for both the Fujit- su and the Adaptec are *very* extensive, right down to the nuts and bolts, so no question anyone may have cannot be addressed at some level. * THE ATTEMPTS: So far, I have attempted various levels of communication with the Adaptec/Fujitsu. with an A2090a AND A2091. I have resisted going very far with the 2090a, feeling totally blind using the Prep software. But I have noted that if I do a warm boot when the Fujitsu is on, but its not up to speed (it's ready light is not on), the Amiga hangs in the boot state UNTIL the drive comes up to speed, and then it finishes booting. Something's happening there... I ALSO JUST TRIED AN A2091 controller on it: Regardless of what jumper settings I used on the 2091, the HDToolbox software came up saying that no hard drive was in the system. ***BUT*** when I was booting from the Commodore 2091 Installation disk (rev 1.23), AND when I clicked on the HDToolbox, and the SCSI polling was taking place, every time it hit whatever device I had the Adaptec/Fujitsu hooked up to ( I tried several), THE HARD DRIVE LIGHT, together with the LED on the Adaptec, AND the ready light on the Fujitsu ALL BLINKED BIG, and I'm *certain* that there was some handshaking howdy doodies going on. * WHAT TO DO? I would like to know what goes on when the HDToolBox program is run and what SCSI commands are being sent out. From that information, I should be able to determine whether I have set up the command set on the Adaptec properly and perhaps WHY the HDToolbox thinks whatever it found out there at SCSI unit # X is not a hard drive. * Does anyone have any SCSI diagnostic software that I can use? Something that can send out a SCSI command, and retrieve the return code? * CAN ANYONE HELP ME ! If not with SCSI related info, then send some strongarm person over to kill me, and take away this monster drive! :) Like, thanks for reading all this, if indeed you did. 0 | \ ________Scott Busse /\_^_| |__ /_________CIS 73040,2114 `__ ----- \____/___________a763@mindlink.UUCP /\ _|_ \____________uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Scott_Busse