GVP Impact A2000-HC+8 Series II su A2000

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GVP Impact A2000-HC+8 Series II su A2000

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On this card there are also jumpers for SCSI IDs, there are 3 jumpers J10, J11 and J12. The manual explains only the position of the jumpers for the RAM, but not that for the SCSI IDs. Do you to know the settings of these jumpers?

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GianDO wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 10:07 pm On this card there are also jumpers for SCSI IDs, there are 3 jumpers J10, J11 and J12. The manual explains only the position of the jumpers for the RAM, but not that for the SCSI IDs. Do you to know the settings of these jumpers?

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At a guess they'll be the SCSI address. Those are usually 3 bit addresses.
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Re: GVP Impact A2000-HC+8 Series II su A2000

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terriblefire wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 10:24 pm
GianDO wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 10:07 pm On this card there are also jumpers for SCSI IDs, there are 3 jumpers J10, J11 and J12. The manual explains only the position of the jumpers for the RAM, but not that for the SCSI IDs. Do you to know the settings of these jumpers?

Thanks
At a guess they'll be the SCSI address. Those are usually 3 bit addresses.
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Re: GVP Impact A2000-HC+8 Series II su A2000

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GianDO wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 11:07 pm
terriblefire wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 10:24 pm

At a guess they'll be the SCSI address. Those are usually 3 bit addresses.
Si ma io vorrei conoscere come vanno settati.
Please keep it in English!

SCSI address setting is a rather large user land subject. My guess is you are setting the controller ID there and unless you know what you are doing leave it alone as you found it. The controller is usually ID7 so all jumpers set.
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terriblefire wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 11:44 pm
GianDO wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 11:07 pm

Si ma io vorrei conoscere come vanno settati.
Please keep it in English!

SCSI address setting is a rather large user land subject. My guess is you are setting the controller ID there and unless you know what you are doing leave it alone as you found it. The controller is usually ID7 so all jumpers set.
But I don't have 7 devices attached and I wouldn't want to wait for the system to check if all are present. This slows me down the boot.
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GianDO wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:33 am
terriblefire wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 11:44 pm

Please keep it in English!

SCSI address setting is a rather large user land subject. My guess is you are setting the controller ID there and unless you know what you are doing leave it alone as you found it. The controller is usually ID7 so all jumpers set.
But I don't have 7 devices attached and I wouldn't want to wait for the system to check if all are present. This slows me down the boot.
It doesnt usually matter. The controller will scan all devices unless you ask it not to in software. I dont think this setting does what you think it does. Its there for when you have 2 controllers on a SCSI chain. Leave it alone.

Applications where you have multiple controllers on a chain include IP over SCSI etc.
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And it doesn't (or shouldn't) take long to scan the chain anyway. It should take a matter of seconds.
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matt020 wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:52 am And it doesn't (or shouldn't) take long to scan the chain anyway. It should take a matter of seconds.

1 minute and 36 seconds pass from when I turn on the computer until the WB screen appears. They seem a little too many. I noticed that during the boot there are some initial stall phases with the hard disk LED that seems to be on steady, then after a minute it flashes and loads the WB even if the floppy click has already been heard for at least 30 seconds.
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GianDO wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:37 pm
matt020 wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:52 am And it doesn't (or shouldn't) take long to scan the chain anyway. It should take a matter of seconds.

1 minute and 36 seconds pass from when I turn on the computer until the WB screen appears. They seem a little too many. I noticed that during the boot there are some initial stall phases with the hard disk LED that seems to be on steady, then after a minute it flashes and loads the WB even if the floppy click has already been heard for at least 30 seconds.
Which kickstart? That is a known issue in KS3.0 i think? 1 min 36 seconds is the known time some drivers will wait for all disks to spin up.
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Re: GVP Impact A2000-HC+8 Series II su A2000

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terriblefire wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 2:13 pm
GianDO wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:37 pm


1 minute and 36 seconds pass from when I turn on the computer until the WB screen appears. They seem a little too many. I noticed that during the boot there are some initial stall phases with the hard disk LED that seems to be on steady, then after a minute it flashes and loads the WB even if the floppy click has already been heard for at least 30 seconds.
Which kickstart? That is a known issue in KS3.0 i think? 1 min 36 seconds is the known time some drivers will wait for all disks to spin up.
The kickstart is 3.1, but it seems slow to me. 1 minute and 36 seconds is too long. I also have an A1200 and A4000 with the same kickstart and they don't take long to boot ..
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