Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrcae!hubcap!dawill From: dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu (david williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Help! StarDrive woes Summary: Yeaaaaa! It works. Message-ID: <7314@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 4 Dec 89 19:16:37 GMT References: <7248@hubcap.clemson.edu> Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC Lines: 42 In article , portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: > >>>>> On 30 Nov 89 04:05:55 GMT, dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu (david williams) said: > > > david> Recently, I picked up a used StarBoard II, which I am really happy with. > david> However, I also recently bought a stardrive to go in it. I was thinking - > david> 'Hey, this is one of the cheapest SCSI controllers on the market, I can pick > david> it up now and use it untill I can afford a HardFrame or something...' > david> However, it won't work. When I try the supplied installation software, > david> I get a OpenDevice failure requestor that says it cannot open the > david> stardrive.device. > > Check the connections and configuration switches on your hard drive. > If the interface can't talk to the drive, you'll get this error. > > I really wish Microbotics had written documentation for their product. > Don't expect them to be helpful if you call them on the phone with a > question, either. > I was fiddiling around this weedend and discovered my cable was wired wrong. Once that was fixed, the drive worked perfectly. Yeah! Success! You are wrong about microbotics, though. I called them and described my problem, and got yer basic 'duh. I dunno. Sounds like you got a problem' I *demanded* to talk to someone who knew what was going on, and suprisingly enough, I got him. He asked me questions about how the software was responding when I tried to format it. When we got to the point that the software could not mount the drive, he looked up the error code. This code turned out to be a response from the device driver, stating that it could not get the drive to respond. His advice: "Check your cable and LUN settings on the drive. Sounds like the drive is not getting the right signals." Sure enough, it was my cable. I would take the stardrive interface over the supra for the 1000 any day of the week. My drive is actually a MiniScribe 8425S that my roomate got out of his old Supra 4 X 4. We quit using that interface because it was very slow, and was generating random errors. /'''''\ | o o | Dave Williams dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu | m | PeopleLink: SillyDave | \___/ | 'You think I'd really tell you what I'm up to?' \__U__/ "Hah! Finally! A real .sig file!"