FastATA 4000 MkV problems.

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Originally Posted by shutter

Hi i have tha FAST ATA MK5 Z3 too, but the card was delivered with the wrong drivers for the MK4 version , PLEASE can someone help me and send me the MK5 Driver Disk --> PS i send 2 emails to Elbox with SN (but no answer) and on their homepage is only an old version for the MK4 too which is NOT working !!

-Message FAST ATA 4000 not found but the card IS working, ive seen a hdd with scsi lister!

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Hi mate :)

You can post some pics of your board showing the SN? Maybe I can help you, I have two different versions of the floppy drivers.

Hi merlinkv i added 2 pics, sorry for the bad qualitiy..SN is 6200437 ..hm the eprom is 5.0 C ..is there a newer than this ? are both drivers working?
if u have the Disks as DMS it would be great THANX :roll:

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Originally Posted by shutter

Hi merlinkv i added 2 pics, sorry for the bad qualitiy..SN is 6200437 ..hm the eprom is 5.0 C ..is there a newer than this ? are both drivers working?
if u have the Disks as DMS it would be great THANX :roll:

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Hi mate,

I think the problem is the EPROM v5.0.C, my boards have v6.10.

These are my disks in DMS format (Maybe equal contents? ) I renamed as ....MKV_1 & .....MKV_2.

Attachment 22373 Attachment 22374

Best wishes

I also had v5.0C boot ROM.

@Merlinkv. Was your bootrom code preinstalled or is it some custom code you have added?

Thanks,
Ed.

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Originally Posted by Ed.D

I also had v5.0C boot ROM.

@Merlinkv. Was your bootrom code preinstalled or is it some custom code you have added?

Thanks,
Ed.

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Finally I dismounted my systems (a bit difficult, my little room is like a computer museum) to check more accurate.

In one board the sticker shows 5.0c but in the other shows 6.2

Sorry for the mistake I posted before: "I think the problem is the EPROM v5.0.C, my boards have v6.10". :oops:

In anyway both boards shows scsi.device 60.310 (maybe the EPROM stickers are wrong? )

I have the possibility to reprogram the EPROMs but, really, I don't needed it. Both boards are working fine under systems of similar configuration.... CSPPC, IDE & UW-SCSI devices, Mediator 4000, ...... :)

Also the Disk Drivers (I uploaded before) appears to be the same.

Ok, thank you my friend. :)

thank you also from me i will try to get this working with your disks

Hi again,

Just to bring some info.

Decided to test possible differences between 5.0C and 6.2 ....

I reprogrammed the EEPROM of my 5.0C board with the code I get from the 6.2

Both boards are working now as 6.2 version like a charm. But, as I said before, I cannot appreciate any difference.

Best wishes

Just had a reply from Elbox re: cold booting with hard drives and PFS direct SCSI.

Ed.D:
> I tried the 2.10 driver and although it could detect the card I could
> not cold boot with PFS Direct SCSI loaded onto the HDD, .... I had to do > a soft reset for the system to detect
> the HDD.

Elbox:
It is possible only if you have a very old - slow hard drive.
In this case it is enough to push a digits from 1 - 9 during computer start. Higher digit means longer time for detecting connected hard drives.

@Ed.D

Hi mate,

As I know, PFS is one of the best FileSystems (if not the best), but why not SFS ?..... I have all my drives with SFS and I don't have problems.