wally@athenanet.com (Wally Hartshorn) (06/16/91)
Here's my setup: A2000HD with A2090A controller and Rodime 40meg ST-506 Quantum ProDrive LPS 105S (105meg SCSI drive) 1meg chip RAM Microbotics 8-Up board with 4meg installed External AIR floppy drive Supra 2400 modem Star NX-10 printer Workbench 1.3.2 with ARP replacements I was having some problems before I bought the Quantum drive. The BBS which I run was crashing and getting corrupted. I suspected the problem was a bad sector on the Rodime. I needed more space anyway, so I ordered the new Quantum drive. My dealer called his distributor, who said they were out of them and would have to order it. Later the distributor called back to say that they had found one and would ship it. It arrived without any documentation. I don't know whether there's supposed to be docs for it or not. If there are, please let me know so I can try to talk Quantum into sending me some. After a bit of guesswork and a call to Quantum's tech support, I finally figured out the information I needed to prep and format the drive. It seemed to work fine. However, it came with the jumpers set to be SCSI device #7. Since I didn't have the docs, I didn't know how to change it to be SCSI device #1, so I just left it that way. It seems to work, but the system has been crashing fairly often. Furthermore, it seems to crash in "clusters". In other words, it will run fine for two days, then crash, crash again when I reboot, crash again, then work fine. The system boots fine normally, although it sometimes hangs during the boot process. After it has booted, however, it will sometimes crash when I try to use a simple shell command. (By the way, when it hangs during the boot process, the screen is a light gray color.) Question: Is it best to have the lone SCSI device configured to be SCSI device #1? Could that be causing my problems? If so, does anyone know how to configure the Quantum LPS 105S to be SCSI device #1? Can I change my drive from device 7 to device 1 without losing the data on the drive? Do I need to prep the drive again, or simply change the MountList entry? Keep in mind that my controller is the A2090A, NOT the A2091. -- Wally Hartshorn (uunet!nstar!pallas!wally or wally@athenanet.com) President, Amiga Computer Enthusiasts of Springfield (ACES) Chronicler, Shire of Swordcliff, SCA Sysop, The Quest, F&SF BBS, Citadel-68K node US (217) 546-7608