🚀 go-pugleaf

>(Excuse me for my poor english:  I'm a french canadian!)

>Hi,

>   I have recently bought a Phase 5's FastLane Z3 SCSI-2 Zorro-3 
>board for my Amiga 4000 computer.  It's a used board, but it seem in 
>perfect state.  I need this board to replace my old Oktagon 2008 SCSI-2 
>Zorro-2 board.  But the FastLane doesn't work, and I can't figure what 
>is going wrong.  The z3scsi.device version is 5.820.

>   First of all, here is the specification of my computer system:

>   Amiga 4000/040 running at 50mhz:
>   € 2 meg Chip and 24 meg Fast RAM;
>   € Workbench V3.0 (Kickstart V39.106, Workbench V39.29);
>   € Super Buster revision 11;
>   € 3640 revision 3.1 (with U209 version -02 and U103 74FCT244).

>      There is a Sonnet Technologies's Doubler-4000 68040/50mhz on 
>   the 3640:  but with or without the Doubler-4000, the problems 
>   with the FastLane are the same.  It doesn't seem to change anything.

>   Devices:
>   € Seagate 340meg IDE hard-drive connected to the IDE port of the 
>     Amiga;
>   € Seagate Hawk 1.06gig SCSI-2 Fast hard-drive connected to the 
>     Oktagon board;
>   € Iomega SCSI-2 ZipDrive connected to the Oktagon board.

>   Boards:
>   € Alfa Data's Oktagon 2008 SCSI-2 Zorro-2 (oktagon.device V6.6);
>   € Utilities Unlimited's Emplant "SERIAL" Zorro-2;
>   € Phase 5's CyberVision 64 with 4meg DRAM Zorro-3;
>   € Phase 5's FastLane Z3 Zorro-3 (z3scsi.device V5.820) with 8meg of RAM.
>        
>   The software used to install the SCSI devices are:  Advanced System 
>& Software's SCSIConfig V1.6 and UnitControl V1.5, Commodore's HDToolBox 
>V39.12, Alpha Data's HDInstTools V2.15.

>   I have tried several configuration of jumpers setting, including the 
>"Auto Enable Synchronous Transfer", "Slow Cable Mode" and "Slow Inquiry 
>Mode".  I don't have any SIMMs in the FastLane Z3 SIMM sockets for the 
>moment.

>   I want to replace my Oktagon 2008 board with the FastLane Z3.  The 
>FastLane Z3's users manual specify that the board work well on 
>revision/11 buster chip and "For board version 3.1, with U209 at 
>version -02 you will need a 74FCT244 clock driver chip.".  So all 
>seem to be ok here.

>   First, I try to install my ZipDrive on the FastLane Z3 (SCSI ID #5 
>Terminating).  First of all, the old Oktagon's RDB on ZipDisk was too 
>short for the FastLane...  It seem to need more than 4kb.  Second, I 
>can't format the ZipDisk with FastLane Z3!  It make my computer crash 
>after formating the first cylinders...  Why?  So I format my ZipDisk 
>with the extended RDB on my Oktagon, and then reconnect the ZipDrive 
>to the FastLane Z3...

>   It work, but it's very unstable:  I can't format or I can't erase a 
>lot of files on the ZipDisk without crashing my computer.  I also often 
>get a system requester with a message like these:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>Attention!  Serious Error!

>Unexpected Phasechange
>SCSIReset and back to asynchon mode.
>All Units with pending jobs are replied
>with a Phaseerror

>Unit=5
>Interrupt=10 Status=87 Sequence=C4
>RealSplitBuffer=$0 SplitBuffer=$0 SliptBufferLength=$0
>CopyBufferLength=0$ SplitAddress=$0 SplitLength=$0
>DMA_Address=$711B002 DMA_Address_PRE=$0 DMA_Address_POST=$0
>DMA_Address_ALIGN_BUFFER=$58B0 DMA_Length=$86 DMA_Length_MID=$0
>DMA_Length_PRE=$0 DMA_Length_POST=$0
>DMA_Write=$0 DMA_Transfer=$0 Phase=$0 SCSIDirekt=$0
>Polling=$0 Polling_Next=$0 Identify=$80 SynchronMsg=$0
>SelectCommand=$41 AlreadyTransfered=$0 SplitTransferSplitted=$0
>SCSIDirectMode=$0 Oddread=$0
>MsgList=$7019C18 MsgList.Head=$7018CC8 MsgList.Tail=$7018CC8
>SyncOffset=$0 SyncPeriod=$5 Config3=$8
><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>Attention! Serious Error!

>Illegal Command State of the controller
>Unit=248
>Interrupt=40 Status=80 Sequence=C4
>RealSplitBuffer=$F8079A SplitBuffer=$F80A66 SplitBufferLength=$F80A2A
>CopyBufferLength=$F80A2C SplitAddress=$F80A2E SplitLength=$0
>DMA Address=$F80B50 DMA Address PRE=$F80A34 DMA Address POST=$F80A36
>DMA Address ALIGN BUFFER=$F80A38 DMA Length=$F80A3A DMA Length MID=$F80A3C
>DMA Length PRE=$F80A3E DMA Length POST=$F80A40
>DMA Write=$0 DMA Transfer=$A Phase=$0 SCSIDirekt=$F8
>Polling=$A Polling Next=$46 Identify=$0 SynchronMsg=$F8
>SelectCommand=$A AlreadyTransfered=$48 SplitTransferSplitted=$0
>SCSIDirectMode=$F8 Oddread=$A
>MsgList=$54 MsgList.Head=$F80A4C MsgList.Tail=$F80A50
>SyncOffset=$0 SyncPeriod=$F8 Config3=$A 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>   And when I try to use the ZipDrive with the MacIntosh II emulator 
>ShapeShifter V3.4, it does not reconize the MacOS and PC formatted 
>ZipDisk!   Why?  Why can't I use my ZipDrive if it's plugged in 
>FastLane Z3?
> 
>   And finally, I can't get my Seagate's Hawk hard-drive (SCSI ID #0) to 
>boot on the FastLane.  And when I try to log in my hard-drive whith 
>SCSIConfig, it tell that "SECTORS*HEADS*CYLINDERS" overpass the disk's 
>block capacity.  If I force to mount the Hawk hard-drive, it seem to be 
>unvalidated and it crash the computer when try to write something on 
>it...

>   What am I doing wrong?  How can I get my FastLane Z3 working well?  
>Why I can't format any disk with this FastLane Z3?  How can I fix the 
>disk's RDBs?  Please help me.

>   Please answer me (in french or in english) as soon as possible by 
>EMail.

>   Thank you very much!  Regards,

>Francis Labrie
>EMail:  fb691875@er.uqam.ca

Francis,

I got these phase errors with my a4000 3640 rev3.1 and my fastlane.  I
got a rom upgrade 5.997 which helped but the biggest help was
discovering that one of the old z2 boards was conflicting with the
Fastlane.  It was my LIVE! video digitizer.  I have had to take that
completely out of my A4000 and then it worked.  If I remember
correctly, re-arranging the order of the boards may have helped in
some combinations too.

I got the rom upgrade when there was a US support division for
Macrosystems.  I am unsure how you would get it now.

Hope that helps some.


Michael



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