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[melott]

I have a question about installing a CD Rom drive.

This is a new installation of OS 3.1 on an A2000 w/A2091 SCSI card.
The CD Rom dirve is a Toshiba XM-5401B 4X (50 pin SCSI) (good).
The SCSI bus is properly treminated (I think).

If I boot up with a disk in the drive everything works correctly. I am
able to access the disk and also able to change disks to another
disk and access that disk. Boot time is normal.

If I boot up without a disk in the CD Rom boot time is much longer.
I think the system is polling the CD Rom for what seems to be an
excivesly long time. After its done booting if I put a disk in the CD Rom
the system hangs (locked up ?).

Anyone .. any ideas where my problem is ??

Mel

[Nlandas]

What SCSI IDs do you have each drive on? Do you have a spare cable and is there an active terminator on the end of the bus?

-Nyle

[melott]

Nlandas wrote:
What SCSI IDs do you have each drive on? Do you have a spare cable and is there an active terminator on the end of the bus?

-Nyle

The HD is unit '0' and the Rom is unit '2'.
I'm sure its not the cable and the bus 'IS' terminated.

Mel

[Thomas]

Disconnect the CD drive, then run HDToolbox and select your HDD. If a requester comes up saying "drives have been added or removed", let it save the changes. Then connect the CD drive again.

Bye,
Thomas

[ral-clan]

What version ROM is in the A2091?

You can try setting the HD RDB to LASTDEV or something like that - I forget).

It marks the drive as the "last device in the chain" so that the Amiga stops looking for further boot devices after it finds this.

I have almost the same setup as you.

[Nlandas]

What drivers are you using for the CDROM?