Weird AmigaOS 4.1FE behavior with SD-IDE and Floppy drive

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i have a towered A1200 with BlizzardPPC SCSI and mediator, i finally decided to installa AmigaOS 4.1FE that i bought some years ago.
as i have a SCSI had drive i had to find an IDE solution and i decided to use a SD to IDE adapter using industrial SD as hard drive, this way i can have several worbench installation to use in case of need. I bought an AS adapter and tested it with AmigaOS 3,2 and it boots without any kind of problem.
So i installed AmigaOS 4.1. FE on a 16GB SD card smoothly.
But when i powered the Amiga up again i get a 8000003 error message claiming that it's the drive DF0: causing problems.
I tried with 3 different drives (original amiga, adapted PC and Gotten) but the result was the same.
If i unplug the drive the Amiga boots up nicely, so it's looks like there is some kind of problem between the SD adapter, the disk drive and AmigaOS 4.1 FE.
Ah last thing, if i boot AmigaOS 4.1FE from CD there is no problem at all, i get no error message, so it really looks like that there is a problem with the SD adapter!

Is there anyone that had the same problem? Is there a solution?
 

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So…….
Make and model of SD card?
Which filesystem did you pick and use?
What is this SD adapter and any links to where you got this from?
 
reflex79 said:
this is the model: https://www.ebay.it/itm/302024453782?_trkparms=amclksrc=ITM&aid=777008&algo=PERSONAL.TOPIC&ao=1&asc=20230811123856&meid=a30707c186424829aa5e26b1b4b71f07&pid=101770&rk=1&rkt=1&itm=302024453782&pmt=0&noa=1&pg=4375194&algv=RecentlyViewedItemsV2WithMLRV6RankerPricelessTop30Features&_trksid=p4375194.c101770.m146925&_trkparms=parentrq:ecdf7c431910a62761d72c4bffff7650|pageci:ed74a71d-7206-11ef-97d5-92b43aa72c29|iid:1|vlpname:vlp_homepage

i used the default AmigaOS 4.1. filesystem and i use a Kingston 16GB industrial micro-SD inside an adapter
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Have had no problems with Sandisk cards and these:

www.ebay.co.uk

BRAND NEW 44Pin Male IDE To SD Card Adapter for Amiga A600 A1200 | eBay

With this adapter, the host computer will identify the inserted SD card as a standard IDE hard disk. (SD/MMC card not included). Converts Secure Digital Card into IDE compatible hard drives.
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The adaptor that @Boing-ball suggested is one that is very much tried and tested over the years for the A1200 computer. FWIW I have been using those types for many years without problem. It might be worthwhile for you to buy one and give it a try.

Be aware that you will also need a 44 pin ribbon cable, unless of course you already have one ;)

As for the one you are currently using, it seems like it's making the Amiga think there is 2 DF0: drives on the system bus and it simply doesn't know which one is correct. As per your experiment, removing it does look to indeed be the solution.
 
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miggymad said:
The adaptor that @Boing-ball suggested is one that is very much tried and tested over the years for the A1200 computer. FWIW I have been using those types for many years without problem. It might be worthwhile for you to buy one and give it a try.

Be aware that you will also need a 44 pin ribbon cable, unless of course you already have one ;)

As for the one you are currently using, it seems like it's making the Amiga think there is 2 DF0: drives on the system bus and it simply doesn't know which one is correct. As per your experiment, removing it does look to indeed be the solution.
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well the adapter o have works ok with amigaOS 3.1/3.9/3.2 booting nice, the only problem is with AmigaOS 4.1FE that shows this strange behavior.
Anyway i guess the adapter you showed me is jut he 44 pin version of the one i have and i choosed it because i can change the SD drive eveyrime i turn the computer off as i used a frontal panel to make it accessible, the 44pin version would not allow me to do that
 
reflex79 said:
well the adapter o have works ok with amigaOS 3.1/3.9/3.2 booting nice, the only problem is with AmigaOS 4.1FE that shows this strange behavior.
Anyway i guess the adapter you showed me is jut he 44 pin version of the one i have and i choosed it because i can change the SD drive eveyrime i turn the computer off as i used a frontal panel to make it accessible, the 44pin version would not allow me to do that
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Yes. I use the one that I linked to. I also have used a SD card extension cable for aiding in swapping out SD cards.

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Boing-ball said:
Yes. I use the one that I linked to. I also have used a SD card extension cable for aiding in swapping out SD cards.

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I guess you have an IDE-winner o 4xIDE99 interface to use the cd-Rom otherwise you cannot install AmigaOS 4.1

I have both indeed I’d like to get your feedback about the solution you adopted
 
i ordered the 44pin adapter.
Well the result is that CD rom doesn't work anymore, i tested with my 2 different IDE adapters.
Moreover i have the same behavior with DF0: errore message, so it's not the solution.

I tried to replace 3.2 rom with 3.1 and it works!

So it looks like it's somethings wrong with 3.2 rom.

Now i am performing a complete AmigaOS 4.1FE installation let's see of it works
 
reflex79 said:
i ordered the 44pin adapter.
Well the result is that CD rom doesn't work anymore, i tested with my 2 different IDE adapters.
Moreover i have the same behavior with DF0: errore message, so it's not the solution.

I tried to replace 3.2 rom with 3.1 and it works!

So it looks like it's somethings wrong with 3.2 rom.

Now i am performing a complete AmigaOS 4.1FE installation let's see of it works
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Ahhhh! You just reminded me. Had issues with 3.1.4 ROMs. But this didn’t allow me to get an installation done properly. I.e would freeze up. 🤞🏻 You get this resolved.
 
Boing-ball said:
Ahhhh! You just reminded me. Had issues with 3.1.4 ROMs. But this didn’t allow me to get an installation done properly. I.e would freeze up. 🤞🏻 You get this resolved.
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AmigaOS 4.1FE works ok now with 3.1 roms.
Roms 3.2 gave that DF0: error message on 4.1 booting up but i was able to manage installation.

Does anyone know if 3.2.2 roms fixed this kind of issues?
 
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