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Alex · 07 April 2003, 18:50

Looking at the circuit board, there's no autoboot ROM (a piece of read only memory that would contain the driver software). It means that without a driver floppy disk you cannot access the hard disk at all.

So your options are:

> i) get the original driver disks (no chance

)

This seems to be vital for this drive.

> ii) try to get it working with KS2.0/HDToolbox.

Will work only if this drive RDB compliant and supports scsi.device. Little chance regarding the drive's age but give it a try.

> iii) get the A2091 driver disk and try that. Aminet?

The A2091 is an autobooting controller, its driver is on the card. So its install disk won't help.

But don't give up, (AMD)5380 based controllers are quite common for Amigas. Here's a list of them for the A500, some of them with install disk:
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search....ga=500&ic=5380

As I've never heard of Applied System Development, there's a chance this company is related to an other better known company. You can check this by reading out the autoconfig ids (if the controller supports autoconfig). Load a util such as Sysinfo, ShowConfig, ShowBoards, AIBB, etc., these will print out the ids which can be used to identify the developer company.

07 April 2003, 18:50	#25
Alex Amiga Hardware Database Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Budapest / Hungary Posts: 23	Looking at the circuit board, there's no autoboot ROM (a piece of read only memory that would contain the driver software). It means that without a driver floppy disk you cannot access the hard disk at all. So your options are: > i) get the original driver disks (no chance ) This seems to be vital for this drive. > ii) try to get it working with KS2.0/HDToolbox. Will work only if this drive RDB compliant and supports scsi.device. Little chance regarding the drive's age but give it a try. > iii) get the A2091 driver disk and try that. Aminet? The A2091 is an autobooting controller, its driver is on the card. So its install disk won't help. But don't give up, (AMD)5380 based controllers are quite common for Amigas. Here's a list of them for the A500, some of them with install disk: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search....ga=500&ic=5380 As I've never heard of Applied System Development, there's a chance this company is related to an other better known company. You can check this by reading out the autoconfig ids (if the controller supports autoconfig). Load a util such as Sysinfo, ShowConfig, ShowBoards, AIBB, etc., these will print out the ids which can be used to identify the developer company.