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From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: C-Ltd SCSI help
Message-ID: <1509@percival.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 89 17:06:15 GMT
References: <16004@louie.udel.EDU>
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In article <16004@louie.udel.EDU> new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes:
>
>I have recently purchased a SyQuest 555 (a 44 MByte removable drive).
>Needing a SCSI driver, I borrowed a C-Ltd controller from a friend.
>My problem is that the controller won't mount the driver.
> [...]
>What won't work: HDFormat and anything else mentioned above, including
>all the scripts that come with the driver software.
>Mount will work, but when I try to DOS-format the dh0:, it tells me
>it can't load the driver.

I too have been having major bigtime  problems with a CLtd controller.
I've already lost 1.5 weeks of development time.  I am using my bosses
old machine (my A1000 is at the office now).  I started having problems
with software that rendered and saved animation.  The drive light would
come on and not go out, even after a warm boot.  So after doing several
reformats (low and high level), re-partitioning, updating to newer
driver software, wrestling with the extremely minimal technical support
that CLtd provides (to be fair, the guy I talked with was helpful, but
he only worked from 1-5pm, and wasn't there much of the time), they need
more tech people, I found that the problem was hardware.  Moving some 
boards around seemed to help the problem.

Anyway, to try to answer your question:  It sounds like you need to fix
something in your mountlist.  This happened to me, and it took me 2 days to
find that I had the wrong value for Interleave.  Grrrrr!  After that it
worked fine.

If you're just borrowing your friend's CLtd controller, my advice is to 
invest in a different one.  It isn't worth the trouble.  I'm stuck with mine,
cause that's what my boss bought.  I've heard good things about Supra's
controller, and CMI is coming out with one soon, I've always been happy
with their products.

Well, back to restoring my drive.  If it doesn't work this time, I'm giving
my machine to David Letterman to drop off the 5 story tower! :-)


>(Thanks in advance)         -- Darren


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