In article <M4s*8R0rr@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

Yes. CDFSSoftATAPI and CDFSSoftSCSI2 are both unplugged.
But the CDFSSoftReallyAncientDrives seem to be in the expansion card (UniPod)
as is CDFSSoftATAPISimtec which would explain why they are all active after a
re-boot or power up even though I've '*Unplugged' them.


Thanks for that Theo. I'm slowly learning!

What is the function/purpose of '~CDReinit' in Tasks?

Still, after all that the machine still won't boot up on power up. It always
needs at least one re-boot or reset.

Thanks for all your help.

Kind regards,
Rod

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In article <4e6e0e739dGroverR@orpheusmail.co.uk>, Rod at
Orpheusmail <GroverR@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:

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I haven't been following this thread closely but the above quote
caught my attention. The flash ROM on UNIpod may have to hold
many modules if all the card functions are activated, especially
USB. Mine has 13 at the moment. When un-plugging, you need to
remember that there only 1 CMOS byte/podule is allocated so,
only the first 8 modules can be unplugged. Thus the order of
the modules may be important.

Using !Snafu you can enter the modules in any order you like by
dragging them in one at a time from the deeply nested
directories in !Snafu.handlers where they live, rather than load
defaults when you get over 30 modules and have no control over
their order.

You can of course also directly delete the modules such as
CDFSSoftReallyAncientDrives and re-flash without them.

I hope that is useful even though you have solved your original
problem.


Brian

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In article <4e6f09a2a5bric-nospam@argonet.co.uk>,
Brian Carroll <bric-nospam@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

Thanks for that Brian. Reminds me, I must check that I've got the latest
UniPod modules.

Theo in <M4s*8R0rr@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> seem to think that their
presence didn't matter "Don't worry about CDFSSoftReallyAncientDrives -
they'll only activate when ReallyAncientDrives are attached."

I'm still getting problems and it seems to me to be either the UniPod IDEFS
Primary channel or the UniPod IDEFS.

There are a few more things that I want to try but as I'm away again until
next week I may not have the time until I come back.

Thanks for all your help,
Kind regards,
Rod

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In article <4e6f8c5ebcGroverR@orpheusmail.co.uk>, Rod at
Orpheusmail <GroverR@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:

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Since all the modules are provided within !Snafu you merely need
to check you have the latest version of that which is 1.83. See
http://www.stdevel.co.uk/supp_uni.html . The modules are a set;
don't be tempted to pick and mix.

You have to load !Snafu to find out the version, but there is no
'info' window. All the files in v1.83 seem to be dated 31 Jan
2005.


Theo is right. But I was suggesting you can delete them all, or
not flash them in, and other unused modules such a VProtect and
all the RMFSxxx modules as well.


I'm using 2 x 80Gb discs on the UNIpod primary channel with no
problems. Both drives were however formatted using HForm when
they were temporarily connected to the motherboard IDE - I will
explain why later if necessary, it has nothing to do with your
problem.


Brian.

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In article <4e6ff6e07cbric-nospam@argonet.co.uk>,
Brian Carroll <bric-nospam@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

Yes, I'm using !Snafu v1.83


[snip]


I've been doing a bit of experimenting with the following results:
(UniPod 'F' = Fitted; 'PM' = Primary Master, 'PS' = Primary Slave etc.)

ADFS UniPod CD-ROM MYhopper VF Result
Mas Sla F PM PS SM SS R/RW

Y Y - - - - - - - - OK (45 secs)
Y Y - - - - - - Y - OK
Y Y - - - - - - Y Y OK

Y Y Y - - - - - - - OK
Y Y Y - - - - - Y - OK
Y Y Y - - - - - - Y NOK
Y Y Y - - - - - Y Y NOK

Y Y Y Y - - - - - - OK
Y Y Y Y - - - - Y - OK
Y Y Y Y - - - - Y Y NOK

Y Y Y Y Y - - RW - - OK
Y Y Y Y Y - - RW Y - OK
Y Y Y Y Y Y - RW Y - OK (RW - PS)
Y Y Y Y Y Y Y R/RW Y - OK (RW - PS, R - SS)

Y Y Y Y Y - - - Y Y NOK
Y Y Y Y Y - - RW Y Y NOK

I'm running it set up as 14 above without any problems booting up first time
at power up and also no problems with either the CD writer of CD ROM drives.

This seems to suggest that there is some sort of clash or problem between the
ViewFinder and the UniPod. The ViewFinder is firmware version 1.53 (I think)
the card is a Rage 128 Pro 32M SDR.

Has anyone had any experience of ViewFinder and UniPod working together?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

I won't be able to try anything else until I get back next week.

Have a good weekend everybody,
Kind regards,
Rod

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David Holden wrote:

Could you elaborate? Having a quick look at my code I can see nothing
wrong with it. I did quick tests with a Simtec IDE-equipped Risc PC and
an IYONIX pc (the only two configurations I could quickly test in the
described scenario) and everything worked fine just as expected with
a Master CD-ROM and a Slave CD-RW.

Do you remember where you have encountered that problem - is it a
Unipod problem as suggested above?

Steffen

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In article <4ol4luFep3f9U1@individual.net>,
Steffen Huber <spam@huber-net.de> wrote:

I had problems with writer and reader both the IDE and Unipod busses - CD
burn not finding the writer, which it had done before, until being told to
try the writer as master. And the problems weren't confined to CD burn -
both units were very flaky even just playing a CD. Kept getting drive
empty or not found. Strangely, they'd worked ok in the old configuration
on the IDE bus under 3.7 before I updated to 4.02. At the same time I
change the RapIDE which had the HDs to the Unipod. Too many changes at the
same time. But everything is fine now all running off the Unipod.

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On 5-Oct-2006, Steffen Huber <spam@huber-net.de> wrote:


ISTR seeing something like this in the CDBurn manual ages ago (though I
can't find it now so I could be wrong) and I have therefore often given this
advice to people who have had trouble with CDBurn recognising their CD
writer when they also have a CD reader. Most of the time it has improved
matters, whatever the IDE interface.

The fact that Rod also says the same thing leads me to believe it has some
validity.

NB. I don't regard it as a 'bug' or 'problem' as it's so easily fixed.

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