Re: SCSI-2 HD and SCSI Chip Problems

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From: Terrance Richard Boyes
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:00

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Mark Naughton <mark@blue-shantung.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Wondered if one of you technical Amigans might be able to
> help me out here. I have a A3000 in a tower with a SCSI-2 Hard drive and
> a SCSI-1 controlling chip on the board. I know replacements for these do
> not exist so thats ruled out (or is it?).

> The problem is I keep getting checksum errors when reading from the HD or
> even writing when more than one program is accessing the drive. I have
> cured it to some effect by reducing the Max Transfer Rate in the Partition
> drive
> option of HDToolBox to about $DFFFFFF (roughly - only the 1st char was
> changed).

NB that if you've copied stuff to the drive whilst the values were
incorrectly set then the data may be corrupt.

> So, does anyone know what value I can set the Max Transfer to totally
> alleviate
> these problems.

Try 

Mask - fffffe
MaxT - fffe00

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Subject: Re: SCSI-2 HD and SCSI Chip Problems
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