Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!well!sjm
From: sjm@well.UUCP (Stephen Moehle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Help with A2090 and SCSI disk
Keywords: A2090 SCSI hard disk help
Message-ID: <14725@well.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 89 01:16:03 GMT
Distribution: comp
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Help!  I am very confused and completely at a loss.  I am trying to get an
Imprimis 3.5 inch SCSI hard disk (I believe that the model name is "Swift"
and the number is I94351-160) to work with my A2090 controller.  I am
using 1.3 Workbench (34.28) and Kickstart (34.5).  Binddrivers works alright
and causes quite a bit of disk accesses.  I mount RES2: using the mountlist:

RES2:     Device = hddisk.device
           Unit   = 3
           Flags  = 0
           Surfaces  = 9
           BlocksPerTrack = 30
           Reserved = 0
           Interleave = 0
           LowCyl = 0  ;  HighCyl = 1
           Buffers = 5
	   BufMemType = 0
#

The mount succeeds.  When I run prep, I tell it 9 surfaces, 30 blocks per
track, and 1072 cylinders.  I tell it that I want my first partition to run
from cylinder 2 through 4 (I have also tried the entire disk.).  I accept
the defaults for all else.  When it begins the prep itself, the disk does
about two head movements, and then nothing else happens -- at least not for
half an hour.  The disk is supposed to be 142 Mb, and I have tried many
variations on blocks per track, clyinders, and surfaces.  Please help.  I
have never had to deal with a SCSI drive, so feel free to point out what
should be obvious.  Thanks.

Stephe
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