ggk@tirith.UUCP (Gregory Kritsch) (01/02/08)
G'day all. I've just added an A590 to my A1000. Of course, in playing
with it, I found a few unusual circumstances. For reference, it has a
20 Meg IDE style drive inside it, 2 Meg of RAM, and a gdos bug ROM.
Most of the problems occurred when I added an OMTI 3100 SASI->ST506
adapter and a single 10 Meg ST506 drive.
First weird thing: The ST506 drive was connected as unit 1, which
attached it to SCSI ID 3, LUN 1, with nothing on LUN 0. When I ran
HDToolBox, it reported that it was checking each SCSI ID and LUN,
although it went noticeably faster over ID 3. The annoying part was
that it didn't recognize the drive on LUN 1. I had a Mac around as
well, and it had no problems recognizing the drive. Switch the drive to
LUN 0 solved the problem.
Second weird thing: Verify Disk Data wouldn't work on the ST506. The
OMTI card doesn't support SCSI Inquiry, and I suspect this may be the
reason, but shouldn't HDToolBox go with its drive size information if
the Inquiry fails? Or is there some SCSI Verify command which the OMTI
doesn't support either?
I'm curious to know if HDToolBox's bad block mapping would work, since I
know that drive has errors on it (somewhere).
Otherwise, I'm quite impressed with the A590. HDToolBox was a real
suprise - a very big bravo to whoever wrote it at CBM.
What was the policy in Canada on ROM upgrades for it (mine has the gdos
bug, and I wouldn't mind getting rid of it).
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