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From: addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C-Ltd SCSI help
Summary: Try this!  (Plus the added attraction:  The Fat Lady Sings)
Keywords: C-Ltd SyQuest FATTER AGNUS GVP
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Date: 18 Jun 89 22:59:54 GMT
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In article <1509@percival.UUCP> baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) writes:
>In article <16004@louie.udel.EDU> new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes:
>>
>>I have recently purchased a SyQuest 555 (a 44 MByte removable drive).
>>Needing a SCSI driver, I borrowed a C-Ltd controller from a friend.
>>My problem is that the controller won't mount the driver.
>> [...]
>>What won't work: HDFormat and anything else mentioned above, including
>>all the scripts that come with the driver software.
>>Mount will work, but when I try to DOS-format the dh0:, it tells me
>>it can't load the driver.
>
>I too have been having major bigtime  problems with a CLtd controller.

Darren, I lost your original posting.  Do you have a 1000 or a 2000?

On my 2000, with a C-Ltd controller and a SyQuest 555, I found that I had
to load the cartridge into the drive (and close the lock) before I turned
on the power to the machine.  This, of course, means that I have to reboot
(power cycle) in order to change disk cartridges, which defeats some of
the purpose of having something as flexible as the SyQuest.

I am debating about getting the GVP controller, since it apparently has
full support for my SyQuest.  Any comments, anybody?  Are there any other
controllers that will support the SyQuest properly?

I went to Creative Computers in Santa Monica the other day and heard that
they had a customer's computer in the back room with the GVP '030, the
GVP SCSI, and a SyQuest.  Wow, just like I want to set up!  They also
had the "FATTER" AGNUS 8372 (PN#318069-02) chip available, so I bought one.

Now it appears that the C-Ltd software doesn't like the absence of the
ram at $C0000 (which is marked 'fast' because it doesn't fit in any other
category).  The quickest way around this might be to get the GVP board.
Any comments?

Richard Addison
"Did you know that 'gullible' is not in the dictionary?"