CSPPC scsi controller HELP

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CSPPC scsi controller HELP

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My config:
A4000D
CSPPC
Mirage Pro Tower (Elbox busboard rev. 1.0 and Mediator)
Sapphire Radeon 9250 128MB 64 bit (Acube)
RTL 8029AS
ESS Solo (1938S)
Scsi chain:
Active terminator==Controller==Seagate ST39102LW==Adapter68-50pin==CD Plextor Ultraplex with terminator jumper
Floppy drive.

First boot with Boot floppy and Cd AmigaOS Classic all OK
Installation on HD scsi very easy and very fast.
After installation don't boot with HD, don't boot with Floppy Boot and Cd AmigaOS Classic.

Sorry for my bad english.

PS. With IDE devices all ok (Video, sound, ethernet ecc.), very fine with my Monitor Lacie electron blue 22".
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Before you tried installing AmigaOS 4.1 on your A4000 PPC system did it boot ok from the PPC SCSI HD under an earlier OS?

By the sounds of your post you booted the AmigaOS 4.1 CDRom via your IDE CDRom and the Floppy AmigaOS 4.1 Boot disk and then installed AmigaOS 4.1 on your PPC SCSI HD, is this correct? Then after the full installation you ejected your the CDRom and Floppy disk and then reset your machine but nothing worked?

I'm just wondering if your PPC SCSI HD worked prior to you upgrading to AmigaOS 4.1?

Sorry I can't be more help, you're a little vague in the right areas ;) try try again :D
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Re: CSPPC scsi controller HELP

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Fogg_80 wrote:My config:
A4000D
CSPPC
Mirage Pro Tower (Elbox busboard rev. 1.0 and Mediator)
Sapphire Radeon 9250 128MB 64 bit (Acube)
RTL 8029AS
ESS Solo (1938S)
Scsi chain:
Active terminator==Controller==Seagate ST39102LW==Adapter68-50pin==CD Plextor Ultraplex with terminator jumper
Floppy drive.

First boot with Boot floppy and Cd AmigaOS Classic all OK
Installation on HD scsi very easy and very fast.
After installation don't boot with HD, don't boot with Floppy Boot and Cd AmigaOS Classic.

Sorry for my bad english.

PS. With IDE devices all ok (Video, sound, ethernet ecc.), very fine with my Monitor Lacie electron blue 22".
Can you double check your SCSI unit is turned on in the CS PPC menu? Hold down ESC at startup to get into the CS PPC menu, go into SCSI and make sure the unit's are turned on. Set everything to ON and Automatic.

Also check out my screenshots, the first one shows the cybppc controller with a couple of partitions and their boot priority.

If the the Unit # is turned off in the CS PPC menu (again hold down ESC at power-on to access it), your SCSI drives won't be available after you turn on your amiga, so make sure that the Unit # corresponding to your SCSI ID of your SCSI hard drive is turned on in the menu.
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Re: CSPPC scsi controller HELP

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Slayer wrote:Before you tried installing AmigaOS 4.1 on your A4000 PPC system did it boot ok from the PPC SCSI HD under an earlier OS?

By the sounds of your post you booted the AmigaOS 4.1 CDRom via your IDE CDRom and the Floppy AmigaOS 4.1 Boot disk and then installed AmigaOS 4.1 on your PPC SCSI HD, is this correct? Then after the full installation you ejected your the CDRom and Floppy disk and then reset your machine but nothing worked?

I'm just wondering if your PPC SCSI HD worked prior to you upgrading to AmigaOS 4.1?

Sorry I can't be more help, you're a little vague in the right areas ;) try try again :D
No. Strange is that I installed OS with scsi chain listed before, after installation scsi chain don't boot. I only reboot the system. Now with scsi don't boot, my controller is dead just now?
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Unless your 68-50 pin adapter has upper byte termination (it is not mentioned in your description), then you have incorrectly terminated your SCSI chain.

As you have an UWSCSI device before the 68-50 adapter, you need to terminate those extra bytes existing in the UWSCSI as opposed to the Narrow SCSI.

Please refer to the Cyberstorm PPC manual as reference; it has very good examples.
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Calgor wrote:Unless your 68-50 pin adapter has upper byte termination (it is not mentioned in your description), then you have incorrectly terminated your SCSI chain.
I don't know, but why I installed OS? Simply luck?

As you have an UWSCSI device before the 68-50 adapter, you need to terminate those extra bytes existing in the UWSCSI as opposed to the Narrow SCSI.
You are right but my friend have scsi chain like me and all ok!!
Please refer to the Cyberstorm PPC manual as reference; it has very good examples.
Thanks, I Re-read manual.
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I can also run SCSI chains without proper termination. However, some types of hardware combinations I have found do not like improperly terminated SCSI chains. For me I only found data corruption due to improper termination happened sometimes. So I could still install the OS but then mysterious crashes occurred. Not saying it is the problem here, but it will be one less possible cause to worry about if it is terminated properly.

If you can also look up as per DarrenHD's suggestions so as to give more information about your setup.
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I don't think the SCSI chain is the problem. Did you install two filesystems on the SCSI disk? I installed FFS and SFS and I had the same problem. Everything worked fine with kickstart 4.1 until I turned off my computer. When you turn on your computer kickstart 3.x tries to boot from your SCSI disk with two filesystems and it will freeze and crash. You only have to install the filesystem from your boot partition.
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Calgor wrote:Unless your 68-50 pin adapter has upper byte termination (it is not mentioned in your description), then you have incorrectly terminated your SCSI chain.

As you have an UWSCSI device before the 68-50 adapter, you need to terminate those extra bytes existing in the UWSCSI as opposed to the Narrow SCSI.

Please refer to the Cyberstorm PPC manual as reference; it has very good examples.
Also make sure you have TermPower enabled on one of your SCSI devices. Otherwise termination doesn't have the wanted effect.
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Now I know what I did wrong. Installing two filesystems is not a problem. I installed SFS with wrong DosType, I used 44f5300 (I only changed the last digit like FFS). Kickstart 3.1 will not work if you do this. The "early startup menu" don't work and you can't boot from any device. Check if your DosType is 53465300 if you use SFS.
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