> > Ok, after about 4 years, I now have another Amiga 3000.
>>Cool! The only thing is, after I've popped a set of 3.1 ROMs into
>>it, gotten new from Sotware Hut, it's having SCSI problems. It's
>>giving data errors from the internal drive. I vaguely remember
>>having the same problem with my other 3000 but do not remember the
>>fix. Other than the ROMs, nothing else was changed. I plan on
>>putting the 2.0 ROMs back in just to recheck everything. Anyone?
>
>First of all, is it terminated? We had a really serious drive crash last week
>since I had removed some devices on the SCSI chain and the termination along
>with it.
The problem was termination. I opened it up again today and
sure enough, the previous owner had removed the terminating resistor
packs from the mainboard. It worked fine like this under the 2.X
ROMs but once the 3.1 ROMs went in it began having problems. Once I
hooked up an external hard disk, properly terminated of course, I was
able to get the machine stable enough to back up the contents and
reformat the internal drive. I then booted from a Workbench disk and
restored everything back to the internal drive. Now, even with the
external drive removed and a DB25 terminator (from a HP Scanjet IIc)
in place, the problems seem to have gone away. As I previously found
out with my last A3000, it was important to back up and reformat the
drive once it began having all the errors as they didn't go away
until then even after fixing their cause.
Jeff
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Received on Tue Jul 17 2001 - 15:30:07 BST