BPPC SCSI Boot Problem...help needed

[amiga4ever]

Hi

I am currently trying to assemble my Amiga/PPC system into a tower. I have just bought a 060/603e+ and I'm now trying to use its SCSI interface so that I can boot from my SCSI harddrive. The harddrive/boot partition has been taken directly from my non-PPC 060 + SCSIKit setup where it works with no problems.

Unfortunately, with my new PPC card, it is refusing to boot fully. From a cold boot, the startup-sequence seems to load BlizKick fine but on its second boot it stalls at the AmigaDOS screen and gives me the following errors:-

Failed to create directory RAM:T
MakeDir: packet request type unknown
Failed to create directory RAM:Clipboards
MakeDir: packet request type unknown

This to me suggests that it is failing at the command: "C:MakeDir RAM:T RAM:Clipboards RAM:ENV RAM:ENV/Sys" in our startup-sequences (just after FailAt 21)

I have tried copying the same bootpartition's contents to an IDE drive to see if the PPC card would boot from the system's IDE interface and it did, without any trouble!

When I boot from the IDE drive's boot-partition I can access the SCSI drive fine. I can copy and execute files and the SCSI interface seems to work well. So my only problem seems to be with actually booting from the SCSI drive.

I'm not an expert when it comes to PPC/SCSI but I'm assuming I should at least be able to boot from this harddrive without any PPC specific software installed?? I'm also not 100% sure when it comes to stuff such as SCSI termination. When I used this drive with my non-PPC 060 Blizzard SCSI-Kit, it was housed in an external case and external active termination was used. In this PPC tower I have simply enabled the termination jumper on my SCSI DVD drive. (which is at the end of the chain)

Well, I don't know exactly what other information anyone reading this might need. Hope I've included enough details, if you need more info. Please ask!

I really hope some expert out there has some helpful tips as I'm completely lost atm. :-? Thanks in advance!

[amiga4ever]

:bump:

sorry to bump this but I really need some help here... :-(

Does anyone even have any ideas why I'm getting this strange "packet request type unknown" message? what does it mean exactly and where is it comming from? Why would it boot fine from IDE interface but not from SCSI? is it a hardware problem? is the card broken? should I throw the card in the bin...set fire to it? :madashell:

I can't see why I would have to do it but is it better to do a fresh OS3.9 installation??

I'm not even sure what version firmware this card has...would finding out and flashing the latest ppc.lib in rom help with SCSI booting probs? is there a tool i can use to find out which version my card has? I've searched and searched but have I missed an old thread here that could help me???

bah, i don't even know where to begin :( any hints at all to get me going in the right direction would be very appretiated!


EDIT: Btw, i know there are sometimes issues with certain A1200 board revisions and PPC cards. I have a Revision 1B board and a Phase 5 270mHz(overclocked)/060 PPC card...if that helps at all...

[doctorq]

I can't see why I would have to do it but is it better to do a fresh OS3.9 installation??


Yes, it would. At least you don't loose anything by trying.

Maybe try to set the SCSI settings to auto all the way through in the SCSI menu, and setting the speed of the ram to 70 ns.

You could also reflash the card with the latest flash. This sets all settings to default. If it works, then you can tweak the settings afterwards.

[amiga4ever]

@Doctorq

I've already tried many different settings in the PPC early boot menu, including 70ns ram-speed/auto scsi stuffs...so it's probaly not that.

I'll try reflashing next, hopefully that will work.

If not I will reinstall the OS. Although I'm pretty sure that's not going to solve it as I have copied all my SCSI drive files to an IDE drive and the system boots fine from that. I think I will reinstall and have the same problems :-(
But like you say it's worth a try!

[doctorq]

If not I will reinstall the OS. Although I'm pretty sure that's not going to solve it as I have copied all my SCSI drive files to an IDE drive and the system boots fine from that. I think I will reinstall and have the same problems :-(

You might have something in your startup-sequence that isn't scsi combatible, so this could be the reason why it wont boot from scsi, but will boot from ide.

Anyway, it's just a thought, so therefore the suggestion of trying to reinstall OS3.9.

[CLS2086]

Hi,
try to remove Ipref, and use GREX firmware for BPPC.
Maybe you also suffer of some progs that are looking for a different volume name...