Hi all,
I have been restoring my A2000 and I wanted to improve it, but some problems appeared that I am not able to solve...or maybe they are known and nothing can't been done.
My A2000 config (I can post picture if someone would like to see it):
A2000 6.2 motherboard with ECS Denise and 1MB ECS Agnus
CR2032 Battery holder
Gotek Drive as DF0
DD drive as DF1
LG CDRW 52x32x52 IDE
A2058 with 2MB RAM
A2630 with 4MB RAM
Picasso II with 2MB RAM
So total RAM 8MB (6MB RAM and 2MB of PicassoII) to avoid Zorro II issues...I think A2630, memory that is always autoconfig, counts on the 8MB RAM limit so it is not possible to expand the A2058 to 4MB and then 10MB total. :-(
AT-BUS 2008 with latest octapussy ROM
32GB CF with a 3.9 OS and 1x500MB FFS partition (Workbench) and 8x3.7GB PFS3 partitions for all the stuff (I put ADF files to be able to write them on a floppy disk if needed). Is this OK? I mean, the first partition FFS?
The problems are the following:
The CDROM is not recognised....It is Slave on the IDE because the CF is the Master. I have copied CD0 from Storage/DOSDrivers to Devs/DosDrivers and configured the CD0.info with:
ACTIVATE=1
DEVICE=scsi.device
UNIT= 2
It doesn't work. With Unit=1 it doesn't work either.
Then I decided to not connect the CDROM and install a 2nd CF as slave...more problems. With another adapter configured as Slave it is been read as Master....so it didn't work (the machine was unable to boot because the 2nd CF doesn't have WB). With a different 2nd adapter it read all OK (boots from the Master CF and recognises the 2nd CF too). I partitioned the 2nd CF with HDToolBox but when I restarted the machine, no new partitions appeared to be formatted. Why? Could it be a limit of my WB3.9 configuration? (9 partitions...HDD units under workbench).
Finally I tried to install a Buddha IDE ZII card (not flash version) but it didn't recognise the CF...so it didn't boot. Installed besides the AT-BUS 2008 (where the CDROM is plugged to the Buddha and the 32GB CF is connected to the AT-Bus) it is not recognised either (using buddha's software too). Is there some place where I can get the last ROM revision for the Buddha so it can read CF? maybe it will solve all my problems...(or someone has it and can share it?)
At the end I only installed the first CF but it is a pity not to be able to install that CDROM or a 2nd CF to files exchange...
Anybody had this issue?
thank you very much.
I have been restoring my A2000 and I wanted to improve it, but some problems appeared that I am not able to solve...or maybe they are known and nothing can't been done.
My A2000 config (I can post picture if someone would like to see it):
A2000 6.2 motherboard with ECS Denise and 1MB ECS Agnus
CR2032 Battery holder
Gotek Drive as DF0
DD drive as DF1
LG CDRW 52x32x52 IDE
A2058 with 2MB RAM
A2630 with 4MB RAM
Picasso II with 2MB RAM
So total RAM 8MB (6MB RAM and 2MB of PicassoII) to avoid Zorro II issues...I think A2630, memory that is always autoconfig, counts on the 8MB RAM limit so it is not possible to expand the A2058 to 4MB and then 10MB total. :-(
AT-BUS 2008 with latest octapussy ROM
32GB CF with a 3.9 OS and 1x500MB FFS partition (Workbench) and 8x3.7GB PFS3 partitions for all the stuff (I put ADF files to be able to write them on a floppy disk if needed). Is this OK? I mean, the first partition FFS?
The problems are the following:
The CDROM is not recognised....It is Slave on the IDE because the CF is the Master. I have copied CD0 from Storage/DOSDrivers to Devs/DosDrivers and configured the CD0.info with:
ACTIVATE=1
DEVICE=scsi.device
UNIT= 2
It doesn't work. With Unit=1 it doesn't work either.
Then I decided to not connect the CDROM and install a 2nd CF as slave...more problems. With another adapter configured as Slave it is been read as Master....so it didn't work (the machine was unable to boot because the 2nd CF doesn't have WB). With a different 2nd adapter it read all OK (boots from the Master CF and recognises the 2nd CF too). I partitioned the 2nd CF with HDToolBox but when I restarted the machine, no new partitions appeared to be formatted. Why? Could it be a limit of my WB3.9 configuration? (9 partitions...HDD units under workbench).
Finally I tried to install a Buddha IDE ZII card (not flash version) but it didn't recognise the CF...so it didn't boot. Installed besides the AT-BUS 2008 (where the CDROM is plugged to the Buddha and the 32GB CF is connected to the AT-Bus) it is not recognised either (using buddha's software too). Is there some place where I can get the last ROM revision for the Buddha so it can read CF? maybe it will solve all my problems...(or someone has it and can share it?)
At the end I only installed the first CF but it is a pity not to be able to install that CDROM or a 2nd CF to files exchange...
Anybody had this issue?
thank you very much.
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