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Sd Card Question

Marcel Smeding

Posts 28
31 Aug 2018 19:50


I have a problem installing the software to make the sd-card working. I did everything as told ik the instructions on wiki.
I have checked everything and al the needed files are in the right folders.
When i type sddiag in shell, it sees the 4Gb sd-card, but when i type the following instruction (scsiquery) it gives the following message: scsiquery failed: required argument missing.

What i'am missing or doing wrong?

When double clicking, SDmountonoff in the system tray, the amiga reboots.


John William

Posts 563
31 Aug 2018 19:55


marcel smeding wrote:

I have a problem installing the software to make the sd-card working. I did everything as told ik the instructions on wiki.
  I have checked everything and al the needed files are in the right folders.
  When i type sddiag in shell, it sees the 4Gb sd-card, but when i type the following instruction (scsiquery) it gives the following message: scsiquery failed: required argument missing.
 
  What i'am missing or doing wrong?
 
  When double clicking, SDmountonoff in the system tray, the amiga reboots.

A) Did you do everything as told in the instructions at Wiki?
B) Did you check everything and all that needed files are in the right folders?
C) What happens in the shell when you typed SDDiag? I am just wondering.



Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
31 Aug 2018 20:03


marcel smeding wrote:

When double clicking, SDmountonoff in the system tray, the amiga reboots.

The tool needs enough stack.
Make sure that the script does set the stack size higher e.g. 50kB


Marcel Smeding

Posts 28
31 Aug 2018 20:21


John William wrote:

  A) Did you do everything as told in the instructions at Wiki?
  B) Did you check everything and all that needed files are in the right folders?
  C) What happens in the shell when you typed SDDiag? I am just wondering.
 

A) yes, step by step
  B) yes everything is where it should be. Only thing that confuses me is the pfs3_aio-handler file. It has a different file name, just pfs3handler, but thats what's mentioned on aminet to.
  c) it gives all the ifo about the sd-card, as explained on the wiki file.


Marcel Smeding

Posts 28
31 Aug 2018 20:25


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

marcel smeding wrote:

  When double clicking, SDmountonoff in the system tray, the amiga reboots.
 

  The tool needs enough stack.
  Make sure that the script does set the stack size higher e.g. 50kB

Stupid question maybe, but how do you do that?
I'm not that experienced... :(


Marcel Smeding

Posts 28
31 Aug 2018 20:55


ok, got the sd-card working, youtube is your friend...:0)
Just had to click the sd0 icon in sorage/dosdrivers...


Marcel Smeding

Posts 28
31 Aug 2018 21:54


Next question. I made a rule in the startup-sequence file. Mount sd0: and this seems to work.
After booting the amiga i see the sd-card on my workbench screen. But its seen as a 4GB diskdrive. When i use hdtools it does not reconice the sd as a hard drive. How can i configure the sd-card to be seen as a harddrive so i can partition it.

Again i'm a rooky, so still have a lot to learn.


Mallagan Bellator

Posts 393
06 Sep 2018 20:26


marcel smeding wrote:

  Next question. I made a rule in the startup-sequence file. Mount sd0: and this seems to work.
  After booting the amiga i see the sd-card on my workbench screen. But its seen as a 4GB diskdrive. When i use hdtools it does not reconice the sd as a hard drive. How can i configure the sd-card to be seen as a harddrive so i can partition it.
 
  Again i'm a rooky, so still have a lot to learn.
 

 
  Hi Marcel *waves*
 
  First off, to make life a bit easier on the user, the Storage folder is meant for stuff that aint currently used, like the SD0 mount file, for instanse.
  If you move the SD0 mount file from the Storage/Dosdrivers to Devs/dosdrivers instead, it will mount it automatically, and you don’t need ”mount SD0” in your startup-sequence or user-startup.

Second, I don’t know if you can modify it with HDtoolbox, but if you can, it’s most likely just a matter of finding what driver it needs to check for the card. Seems to me like it would be scsi.device, but I can’t confirm that. If you read the mount file SD0, you should be able to find out what ”.device” it used, then you could go from there and see if it works

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