A4000 IDE question

[ToxicToast]

Its fully disassembled now. Battery removed. Diode on order.

She got her first bath and scrub in lemon juice, wiped up and cleaned with DA. Tomorrow, I'll scrub the board down more and finish with some IPA. Wife has some nail varnish that I'll try and seal the traces with.

Yes there was more in the SIMMs and it became evident as I was removed them that the simm contacts were corroded.

I leave Tuesday for 3 weeks of work. Be back on this in July. I'll be sure to fix the tooltype when we get things back in order-might make all the difference.

I'll update then, thank you!

The correct tooltype for the scsi.device is (no quotes, case sensitive):

SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=scsi.device

Any other thing written on the tooltype will be ignored.

Oh, and that battery leaked hardly on the motherboard. The SIMM holder is a bit corroded, and also all the area to left of it (the greenish thing on exposed metal). Clean it as soon as possible.

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If the CF card route works (and I am hoping it does), I'll probably fab up a mount for it, either in the backplane, or the expansion cut-out on the back panel. Sneaker net should be a great way to migrate these adfs home.

Yes, those should be fine, although you may want one with a backplane mount so you can replace the CF card as you please without opening the Amiga.

bdb

 

[bdb]

Oops, forgot about ADF; I included stuff to read a MS-DOS disk as PC0:

I use BlitzADF from Aminet for those. There are various un-Arc'ing programs on the CF plus other helpful stuff

 

[bdb]

Ok, it's set to be picked up by the USPS about noon today. I enclosed a copy of the first disk in case they go funny (as that tend to do with me).

bdb

 

[ToxicToast]

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Thanks bdb for hooking me with a CF card to troubleshoot. Also picked up an IDE CF card reader.

Sadly, it looks like the IDE interface is indeed, dead.

I stripped the beast down to the mobo, did some extensive cleaning to remove the battery damage and rebuilt it-keeping things minimal. Unfortunately, the same situation as before-no IDE activity. Otherwise, the machine seems to work good and boots into WB3.0 nicely off the floppy.

I gave it a good effort, and appreciate all the help you folks have thrown in. But it looks like this is not in the cards for me. I'd order a Buddah card if I could find one for a decent price in the US.

If I can't get it up and running soon, I'll put the unit up for sale as I have minimal space to keep this machine in hibernation. I was really hoping to have an A4k again oh:

Chris.

 

[bdb]

Well, you have scsi as a choice; they are quite cheap on *bay. Budda's are hard to find, but they are still selling FastATA 4000's -- neither is compliant with OS 4.1; if you want to go that route I can hook you up