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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 Harddrive Update
Keywords: hell, harddrive
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.170704.6504@javelin.es.com>
Date: 25 Mar 91 17:07:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: javelin.1991Mar25.170704.6504
References: <27548@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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cr1@shark.cis.ufl.edu (Anubis) writes:
>Will some kind sole who has successfully installed two hard drives in
>their Amiga 3000 please tell me how they did it.  I know how to do it,
>but I just want to make real sure I'm getting the same setup as
>everyone else that this seems to work for.  (kind sole...hee hee).

One internal Quantum 170S, terminated. No termination on the
motherboard. Three CDC Wren III's in their own cases with power, all
daisy chained from the A3000's external DB-25 SCSI connector, all Wrens
unterminated except for the on on the end of the chain.

Then I ran HDToolbox, and formatted, and everything has worked 100%
reliably since. I got the A3000 in July '90, and have run with two
drives since then. Turning off reselection fixed the only problem I had.
The other two drives were added a month or two ago, still no problems.

I've tested a number of other drives, and the only problem I encountered
was a Sony 40 meg that would lock up the SCSI bus. I never got the
system up far enough to even format that one.

>Final question.  If I go into HDToolbox, and I tell it to turn
>reselection OFF on a harddrive, does it really do it?

Only if you had to re-enter all your partition data. If you didn't have
to do that, you only changed the config file, not the RigidDiskBlock.
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland  580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
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