SCSIMounter 0.9 =============== Removable media partition mounter for Kickstart 2.0 or higher. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer ---------- SCSIMounter is Public Domain. It may be freely distributed for non- commercial purposes only. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of this program is with you. The author assumes no responsibility or liability whatsoever with respect to your use or inability to use of this software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Purpose ------- Most owners of removable media SCSI drives are stuck with the problem that their SCSI software doesn't handle disk changes correctly. For example, the current Commodore implementation doesn't mount the partitions on a removable media SCSI drive when there was no cartridge in the drive at boot time. Even worse, after another cartridge with a different Rigid Disk Block (i.e. a different partition table) has been installed, the system gets totally confused and reports read/write errors when trying to access the device which can lead to loss of important data on the cartridge. Until now, the only possibility to work around this problem was to reboot the system every time a new cartridge has been inserted. These times are gone now - thanks to SCSIMounter. SCSIMounter allows you to mount and unmount partitions without rebooting the machine. It sports a nice 2.0-style point-and-click user interface that makes handling removable media a piece of cake. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Requirements ------------ - Any Amiga with a SCSI host adaptor that supports the Commodore RDB (Rigid Disk Block) standard. - Kickstart 2.0 or higher The program has been tested on an A3000 with Commodore's scsi.device and on an A2500 with a Microbotics HardFrame (HardFrame.device) but I see no reason why it shouldn't work on any other host adaptor (let me know your experiences, please). The program may be of no use for owners of a GVP Series II controller board because of its much smarter software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Before you begin ---------------- First, determine the name of the device driver of your hard disk controller card. Examples of popular controllers and their devices: manufacturer/controller device -------------------------------------------------- Commodore A590/A2091/A3000 scsi.device Old GVP scsidev.device Supra SupraDrive harddisk.device Advanced Storage Systems Nexus nexus.device Microbotics HardFrame HardFrame.device ICD AdSCSI icddisk.device IVS Trumpcard Professional ivs_scsi.device Silicon Peace extam scsi.device Click once one the SCSIMounter icon and select 'Information' from the 'Icons' menu. Add or change the following tool type: DEVICE=Name_of_your_scsi_device_here for example if you use a HardFrame controller write: DEVICE=HardFrame.device Don't add path names here, only the name of the device is required. Take care to capitalize the device name correctly (exec device names are case sensitive!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start SCSIMounter ----------------- SCSIMounter can be used either from Workbench or from the CLI. * Workbench use Double click on the SCSIMounter icon. After a short time, a window with a listview and three buttons will appear. If the window doesn't appear several things can be wrong: - Do you use Kickstart 2.0? - Did you specify and spell the name of your device driver correctly? - Does your host adaptor support RDB? - Is there any memory left on your system? Requesters will tell you the cause if SCSIMounter fails to run. * CLI use Type 'SCSIMounter Name_of_your_scsi_device' example: 1> SCSIMounter HardFrame.device If no argument is given, SCSIMounter uses the default device driver (scsi.device) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Operation --------- SCSIMounter is pretty self-explanatory. Nevertheless, here are some basic operation procedures. * Mount a drive - Click on the listview entry of the desired device. - Click on the 'Mount' button A requester will ask you if you want to continue. - Click 'Ok' SCSIMounter will automatically unmount all existing partitions on the device and mount the new partitions. * Add a drive - Click on the 'Update' button The new drive's RDB should appear in the listview - Click on the corresponding entry - Click on the 'Mount' button ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keyboard Equivalents -------------------- * Requesters OK Rt. Amiga-O Cancel Rt. Amiga-C * Main window & Project menu About Rt. Amiga-A Mount Rt. Amiga-M Update Rt. Amiga-U Quit Rt. Amiga-Q ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Known Bugs ---------- - The program only removes the dos entries for the volumes and devices. It doesn't remove the filesystem process and associated memory allocations. I'm still looking for a legal way to solve this problem for the 1.0 release. - The program requires at least 8k stack. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Credits ------- Author: Martin A. Blatter Pfaffächertsr. 59 CH-8913 Ottenbach Switzerland E-Mail: blatter@ifi.unizh.ch blatter%zethos@cbmswi.commodore.com Phone: ++41 1 761 20 02 Bug reports, suggestions or contributions are welcome. This program uses ITools, the object-oriented user interface system (c) 1991 by Christian A. Weber. Special thanks to: Christian A. Weber, Claudio Nieder, Peter Simeon and Urban Dominik Mueller. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Trademarks ---------- All trademarked product and company names used herein are used for identification purposes only. No infringement of trademarks is intended. Trademarks remain property of the trademark holder.