gpotts@oregon.uoregon.edu (04/13/91)
Today I attempted, without success, to get an A-Max II equipped A3000 to recognize a Syquest removeable cartridge. After spending most of the afternoon at this project, I thought I'd give a report and see if there are any obvious things that I am doing wrong. I do not have a 3000 (I was using a store demo machine) and had no A3000 or WB2.0 documentation at hand, so in many ways I was flying blind and may well have made some simple mistake. The first problem was getting the 3000 to boot with a Syquest drive attached. With a Syquest drive attached and powered up but without an Amiga formatted cartridge installed, the 3000 refused to boot at all. I had to power down Syquest, then boot, then power up the Syquest. Once I had formatted a cart under AmigaDOS, the 3000 would boot with the Syquest on as long as the formatted cart was in the drive an spun up. As per the A-Max II instructions for the 2091 controller, I copied the file "scsi.amhd" to the sys:devs directory (I noticed that there was no scsi.device there -- could this have been the problem? A-Max documentation claims it needs to be there). Because there was no A-Max partition on the A3000's internal drive, I created a "dummy" mountlist entry as instructed in the A-Max II documentation. This entry follows: AMAXex: device = scsi.device Unit = 0 Flags = 0 Surfaces = 0 BlocksPerTrack = 0 Reserved = 0 Interleave = 0 LowCyl = 0; HighCyl = 0 Buffers = 0 BufMemType = 0 # From the Shell, I then mounted AMAXex:. I then attempted to run A-Max but it would not get to the Mac disk with the flashing question mark -- the Mac startup process just hung. Hs anyone successfully used external SCSI devices under A-Max on an A3000 or a 2091 equipped A2000 and, if so, could you tell me how? Thanks. --geoff gpotts@oregon.uoregon.edu
collins@Alliant.COM (Phil Collins) (04/19/91)
Yes I have the Amax working on the 3000 with a 210 Meg Quantum and syquest. I even have a Mac back up program working just great. I will send you all the info I have,I took good notes as how I went about it.