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[motorollin]

I managed to get my FastATA connected along with a hard drive and CD-ROM. I reconnected my Mediator and my 060 and powered up, and all I got was a pale grey screen. I didn't get the rainbow screen of the Blizzard initialising. I disconnected the FastATA, put my ROM chips back on the motherboard and powered up again and it worked fine. What would a pale grey screen normally mean?

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moto

[Ohforf]

Information about self-test and Screen colors
can be found at http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/selftest.html

[JaXanim]

The double-decker arrangemant for fitting the FastATA into the motherboard and the ROMs into the FastATA is a known weak point. Elbox supply a couple of cable ties to pull everything tightly together. I'd double-check the seatings. Oh, and ensure each ROM is in the proper socket ;-)

Cheers,

JaX

[EDIT: Ignore, I see you have two threads on this.]

[motorollin]

I've spoken to Matthew at Amigakit and he reckons the socket isn't connected firmly over Gayle. I didn't remove the motherboard from the case before fitting so couldn't push down very hard to fit it. I'm going to try removing the motherboard and see if I can get it working out of the case, then rebuild everything.

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moto

[JaXanim]

When the gizmo is properly fitted on the Gayle chip, the outer body is in direct contact with the motherboard. Goes on with a 'snap'.

JaX

[Tahoe]

motorollin wrote:
I've spoken to Matthew at Amigakit and he reckons the socket isn't connected firmly over Gayle. I didn't remove the motherboard from the case before fitting so couldn't push down very hard to fit it. I'm going to try removing the motherboard and see if I can get it working out of the case, then rebuild everything.

Very likely, had exactly the same thing happen to me. The edge of the socket that goes over gayle should indeed touch the motherboard on all four sides, however it doesn't always snap in place. Also check the seating of the board in the ROM sockets, these are prone to work their way out, that is just why elbox supplied a tie-wrap...

[motorollin]

I took my motherboard out this morning so I could see what I was doing. I reconnected the FastATA and made sure the ROM socket was pushed all the way down and the Gayle connector was touching the motherboard on all four sides, and the machine booted to the early startup screen.

The motherboard is still sitting on my desk with just my Mediator and 060 connected, with the ATX connector from the PSU connected to the Mediator. The only problem is that the machine won't detect a hard disk connected to the FastATA. The cable is in the correct orientation and the jumper setting is correct. Any ideas? I was wondering if it was due to the pin that connects to the Amiga's internal IDE bus, but I don't know what this does, or whether it could cause this problem if not connected properly?

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moto

[JJ]

I cant remeber if the cbale not being connected to the pin on the original ide port stops drives being seen. afaik its just so your read hdd light works when drives on the powerflyer are being accessed

I had a lot of troublr many years ago with a powerflyer. what drives you got connected. 3.5 or 2.5 inch ?

[motorollin]

I had an email from Matthew at Amigakit this morning. He confirmed what you said that the pin that connects to the IDE interface is just to make the HDD light work. I'll try with it disconnected just in case I connected it wrong. If it still doesn't work I'll triple check the IDE cabling, though I'm sure I connected it right.

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moto

[JJ]

what drives you got connected, you had any joy, i seem to remeber if you had a 2.,5inch connected, and another drive or cd-rom, it would not see anything

[motorollin]

JJ wrote:
what drives you got connected, you had any joy, i seem to remeber if you had a 2.,5inch connected, and another drive or cd-rom, it would not see anything

Just a 3.5" hard drive set to master. I've given up with it now. I'm going to try and get rid of the FastATA and get a SCSI kit for my Blizzard 1260. Thanks anyway for the help!

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moto