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From: visinfo@ethz.UUCP (VISINFO c/o Sascha Schnapka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 and 2090
Keywords: A3000 A2090 SCSI
Message-ID: <5118@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 90 13:21:57 GMT
References: <2886@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM>
Reply-To: visinfo@bernina.ethz.ch.UUCP (VISINFO c/o Peter Simeon)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <2886@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM> ricks@odin..isc-br.com (Rick Schaeffer 99) writes:
>
>I recently purchased a new Amiga 3000 to upgrade my A2500.  I have a
>Syquest cartridge winchester which I connect through an old Commodore
>2090 controller (NOT the 2090A).  I run it this way because the 2090
>doesn't automount it's drives and I only use the Syquest for backup.  I
>expected to be able to place the 2090 into the 3000 and continue to use
>the Syquest/2090 combination as before...but apparently the 2090 won't
>work in the 3000!  I HAVE put "hddisk" and "hddisk.info" into the
>expansion drawer...and Binddrivers succeeds as long as the 2090 isn't
>mounted in the 3000.  However...if the 2090 IS mounted, then the system
>hangs on BindDrivers.  I have waited as much as 10 minutes to see if
>it would time out...but it doesn't.  Is there *anything* I can do 
>about this?  I've never been able to get the syquest to work properly
>on the 2091 I have in the 2500...and it doesn't work connected to
>the external SCSI port on the 3000 either so I'm stuck if I can't get
>the 2090 to work!!

What version of the A3000 motherboard do you have? Here in Switzerland
CBM distributes 2 versions: Rev 6.3 and Rev 7.3. The Rev 6.3 seems to be
a beta version. It has a wire accross the motherboard soldered to the
FPU and on the Quantum drive there is a label telling you that the
terminator resistors are on the motherboard instead of the hard drive.

I had no time yet to test cards in a Rev 6.3 but in my 7.3 the 2090
works perfectly. (I have connected a SyQuest, too). I also tested the
GVP Impact Hardcard Controller, A Supra 2400ZI Modem and a A2052 memory
expansion. All these cards work perfectl in my A3000. Currently I have
installed the SUPRA, GVP and 2090 card all together.
But when I tested these cards in an early dealer demo A3000 which had
a Rev 6.1 motherboard, none of them worked!
I try to test as soon as possible all these cards in a Rev 6.3.

You can also connect the SyQuest to the A3000 directly. To do this you
should know your mountlist on the A2090 and then enter these values in
the HDToolBox. You have to click to the Gadget 'Advanced Options' and
the you can enter cylinders etc. Then you can click to the FileSystem
options and there you find a gadget which allows you to disable
Automount. In the same window you also have to correct the Mask from
'7FFFFFFE' to '7FFFFFFC'. You can then write a mountlist for your devs
directory. Note that the Mask must be '7FFFFFFC' (the 2090 had 00FFFFFE)
and under 2.0 you must remove the FileSystem entry.

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