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- Short: New SCSI device for Blizzards
- Author: gzenz@ernie.mi.uni-koeln.de (Gideon Zenz)
- Uploader: gzenz@ernie.mi.uni-koeln.de (Gideon Zenz)
- Type: biz/patch
-
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- PURPOSE
- Everybody who owns the SCSI-Kit-IV for his Blizzard accelerator, and
- who owns removable drives like ZIP, streamers etc knows the problem:
- Crashes, SCSI bus lockups etc, which only go away if he switches
- reseletcion and removable off via UnitControl.
-
- But who looked on Phase5`s ftp server could see a nice improvement:
- there is in /pub/phase5/beta/scsi/ a new SCSI Rom 8.1 available! And
- even more nice news: It`s not developed any more by Ralph Schmidt, so
- there could be some improvements! And there are some: The problem
- with reselection and removable has (nearly) gone away, so you finally
- can use your streamer/zip/whatever without never ending crashes!
-
- But what the hell can you do with a simple ROM image? Again pay $$
- for an update, so you finally can work a bit better with your
- expensive hardware?
-
- Well, this is where SoftSCSI comes: It`s a software patch, so you can
- use the new 1230scsi.device v 8.1 without any hardware changes!
-
- USAGE & INSTALLATION
- Very easy: First copy at least the files SoftSCSI and A1234.ROM of
- this archive in your C: assign. Now put in the first line of your
- startup-sequence this one:
-
- C:SoftSCSI
-
- NOTE: If you use other programs like FastEXEC, KickBlizz etc., there
- is a NORES option, so you won`t have multiple resets. An example:
-
- C:SoftSCSI NORES
- C:FastEXEC
- C:KickBlizz MyROM
-
- TECHNICAL
- This paragraph is for advanced users only, so don`t get mad because
- you don`t understand a word :)
-
- It`s quite a bit hacky, but it works :^) To understand it, you need to
- know a bit about the autoconfig(TM) process. SoftSCSI hooks itself
- right after the expansion.library in the KickTagPtr. On a reboot,
- expansion.lib now configures our expansion board, the blizzard, and
- the Blizzard rom itself configures the SCSI rom, if present.
- Thereafter SoftSCSI initalizes the original Blizzard config area anew,
- using the new scsi rom, so when the autoboot process starts, not the
- original scsi.device but the new one will be called. That`s all
- folks.
-
- GREETS
- I`m greeting all of the Phase5 support line, hopefully this will
- relieve you a bit :-)
-
- HISTORY
- v1.0 (27-Nov-96)
- - Initial release
-
- FUTURE
- - Do a Fastlane, Cyberstorm MK I and B2060 version.
-
- DISCLAIMER
- The included files "A1234.ROM" and "scsi.readme" are taken from
- ftp.phase5.de and are © by Phase5 Digital Products! They aren`t in
- any way modified, and just included for the comfort of the users of
- SoftSCSI.
-
- This software is subject to the "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright
- Note" It is Freeware as defined in paragraph 4a. For more information
- please read "AFD-COPYRIGHT" (Version 1 or higher).
-
- AUTHOR
- If you have some comments, please don`t hesitate to contactme!
-
- Gideon Zenz
- Giersbergstr. 41
- 53229 Bonn
- GERMANY
-
- EMail: gzenz@ernie.mi.uni-koeln.de
-
- -Gideon Zenz, 27-Oct-96
-
-
- SECURITY
- If you want to be shure you have the original programs, check with
- "md5sum -c SoftSCSI.readme". (md5sum is part of the PGP package), and
- of cause check the integrity of this readme with PGP!
-
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