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[preacher]

lo all

Got some problems with my FastATA4000. If I connect an IDE drive to the internal IDE port of the A4000D, it's working just fine. And it's fairly quick too.
However, if I remove the internal drive and put it on the primary channel, as master, it just refuses to boot.
If I go to the early boot menu, I can see that it can find the drive but it just won't boot!

The system is an Amiga 4000D w. Apollo 3040@40Mhz + 64Mb RAM. The FastATA controller is Rev 1.2.

Btw, to be on the safe side I used a 500MB drive when testing...

[Thomas]

If there is nothing connected to the internal IDE bus, it needs up to 30 seconds before it starts to boot. Perhaps you simply didn't wait long enough ?

Bye,
Thomas

[preacher]

The longest I've waited so far is 15 minutes...

[Thomas]

Which settings did you make in FastATAPrefs ? If you set the bus to a too high PIO mode it will fail to read from the HDD.

What happens if you choose "Boot without startup-sequence" from the Early-Startup menu ?

Bye,
Thomas

[keropi]

What drivers are u using? The latest set is version 8.1 ... register with elbox and ask them to send them to you... 8.1 were the only drivers that worked 100% with my system...

[preacher]

On Elbox' site, it says v2.5? That's what I use anyway (v25a33)

I've made some progress. I created a new bootdisk with the driver on it and set the PIO-mode to 0. Mode 3 was also working, but I can tweak more when the system is up and running. Thanks for the tip! :-D

Now I only have one problem left. Getting access to the CDROM. AllegroCDFS is located in the L: drawer and I've also copied the CDx mountlist from the FastATA floppy. The CDROM doesn't show up when I do a manual mount. I have a feeling I'm forgetting something... :-?