Trouble with Morley SCSI card under RISC OS 3.10

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2 total messages Started by mhw Sun, 20 Dec 1992 13:20

#721

Author: mhw
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 13:20

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I'm having a little trouble with my system now that I've moved to
RISC OS 3.10. When I try to dismount floppy disks the machine will
sometimes hang completely (i.e. the mouse pointer doesn't move and
the break key won't work). Some comments I've read have suggested this
is due to early versions of the SCSI software for the Morley card.

Can anyone confirm this connection - I've noticed that my hard disc
seems to mount and dismount itself at will (the name under the icon
keeps changing) but I'm not sure what's causing the problem.

The SCSI modules from the EPROM on the card have the following
version numbers:
SCSIDriver	1.07
SCSIFS		1.05
SCSIFiler	1.05
Do recent versions of the software exhibit these problems?

I've got slightly later versions of the software (1.08, 1.07 and 1.06
from memory) on the support disk that comes with the card, but I can't
seem to replace the modules downloaded from ROM with copies from the
hard disk. The newly loaded SCSIFS just refuses to recognise the disk,
giving "Please insert disk '...'" messages. Any ideas how to replace
the older modules at boot time?

-Mark.

Re: Trouble with Morley SCSI card under RISC OS 3.10

#511

Author: Hugo Fiennes
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 21:17

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In article <724857612.3795@minster.york.ac.uk> mhw@minster.york.ac.uk writes:

>I've got slightly later versions of the software (1.08, 1.07 and 1.06
>from memory) on the support disk that comes with the card, but I can't
>seem to replace the modules downloaded from ROM with copies from the
>hard disk. The newly loaded SCSIFS just refuses to recognise the disk,
>giving "Please insert disk '...'" messages. Any ideas how to replace
>the older modules at boot time?
Yes: load them in this order:

rmload scsi::4.library.scsidriver
rmload scsi::4.library.scsifs
rmload scsi::4.library.scsifiler

Note the use of full pathnames and *no disknames* - when you load scsifs
it will have the effect of dismounting all SCSI disks, hence the insert
disk messages. Also, you have to load scsidriver than scsifs (or rmreinit
scsidriver then load scsifs) as scsifs locks your drive IDs so nothing
except scsifs can access them - reiniting scsifs ends up with scsifs not
being able to issue calls to scsidriver as it doesn't have the right access
key.

The latest versions are something like 1.10 for scsidriver, and 1.09 for
both the others I think.

Hugo

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