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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 and Adaptec 4000 Combo Help Again?
Keywords: Cannot find handler when mounted, Hdtoolbox Does not see it.
Message-ID: <15935@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Nov 90 04:06:06 GMT
References: <38@swpyr2.sbc.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <38@swpyr2.sbc.com> ammrk@swpyr2.sbc.com (Mike R. Kraml) writes:
>
>    I am pleading one more time.  I am trying to get an ACB4000 SCSI to ST506
>	adapter card going on my A3000.  Has anyone gotten this thing to work?
>	When I mount the drive, and attempt to access it, I get an error, 
>	"cannot find handler".  The hdtoolbox program simply doesn't see the thing.
>	It resets it and the attached ST506 drive, but does not present it in the
>	drive list.

	The Adaptec 4xxx series controllers are really SASI not SCSI.  They
have a number of very non-standard things about how they interpret commands,
etc.  They do not follow the spec (of course they were introduced before the
spec was adopted, I think).  I'm suprised HDToolBox doesn't see anything -
even if it can't handle it, it should show up.  There may be something more
serious wrong.  In any case, if you can get the thing low-level formatted, you
will probably be ok, since that's the real non-standard part of the thing.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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