I need advice on my real amiga A4000D Xmas

[iowtheme]

Hi All

I need advice on my real amiga A4000D

The original IDE HD what was in it has now died so lost all the driver and I have lost the 4GB CF card when I have moved home
So now I have to start again.

The spec of my real amiga
4000/40
IDE DVD rom,
Ariadne II Network Card,
Macrosystem Retino BLT Z3 VGA card
Warp engine acelerator card
CF adapter install

I have all original disk's and CD's WB 3.1 Disks, WB 3.5 CD and WB 3.9 CD ready to install.

Now download all the drive form the internet for the card's ( hopefull these are the right one )

AmiCDROM-1.15.lha and IDEfix97.lha
AriadneII_43_12.lha
AriadneII_Info-10.lha
AriadneII-10-1.dms
AriadneII-10-2.dms
AriadneII-14a.dms
AriadneII-14b.dms
Retina-20.dms
Retina-21.dms
Retina-22.dms
Retina-23.dms
Retina-23.lha
RetinaTuning.dms
WarpEngine.dms

So my question is can I run 4GB CF card and setup New WB in the real amiga A4000D or do I need to do this with my PC in WinUae.
If yes can anyone tell the correct setting to set it up in WinUae.

So can anyone HELP me to resetup my real Amiga A4000D

Another question is. can I use Kingston 60gb SSD Hard Drive and form ebay I brought IDE to SATA Converter Adaptor? will this work in my Amiga A4000D this was a second option
but look like I will stick with the 4GB CF Card?

thank you

[Jope]

You can set it up in the A4000 just fine.

You can use a 60GB drive too, use pfs3aio, make sure the first partition is within 7,8GB, load a patched scsi.device in the startup-sequence (wb3.9 does this automatically).

[Locutus]

One note about those Retina.dms's they the very old RetinaEmu RTG system.

You really dont want to run that anymore (except for as a historical curiosity), instead grab Picasso96 or Cybergraphics4.

Both systems have newer drivers for your card and are far more compatible. It will save you a lot of headaches

[iowtheme]

Thank Locutus
I have download from Aminet - driver/video/Picasso96.lha But I can not find a FREE download of Cybergraphics4 can find only paid version

[iowtheme]

Which is the easiest way of setting up a IDE DVD Rom.

I have NOT install AmiCDROM-1.15 but I have install the IDEfix97 yes it work BUT it is a Demo it put up with do I want to register it.

Is there a better way of setting up

[emufan]

Originally Posted by iowtheme

Thank Locutus
I have download from Aminet - driver/video/Picasso96.lha But I can not find a FREE download of Cybergraphics4 can find only paid version

on the ftp are several version. just take a look.

#1) some reg info for idefix you can find on the ftp too.

[iowtheme]

Now setup TEST CF card now load with WB 3.9 and the BoingBags update 1,2,3,4 this was done in winuae at work fine

BUT new problem now put the card in to my real amiga A4000D

it can not find the IDE CD rom ( Cannot open "uaescsi.device" unit 0 ) from memory it was on unit 3 what do I do next from memory I think I had to edit some think ????.

I thought install OS3.9 thougth it came with a CD driver.

[SnkBitten]

Look in DEVS: Dosdrivers for your cd drive, it's a text file that you can edit. CD0 or CD1 etc..

Edit the file in DEVS: Dosdrivers for your CD with a text editor and change where it has uaescsi.device to scsi.device and it will be either unit 0 or unit 1.

CF-card is one of those, the CDrom would be the other as only 2 devices are allowed on the IDE port.

[iowtheme]

I have now give up with IDE CD Rom the ONLY one that work for me is IDEfix97

[iowtheme]

Now install Picasso96 video drive on the my A4000D Cf card and how it show me black screen only

So I Run it in winuae and it is the same black screen only to

My A4000D has two video card
Card 1 = Macrosystem Retino BLT Z3 VGA card
Card 2 = addon card on a chip
Would this be the problem??

[SnkBitten]

What is your addon card on a chip? An Indivision AGA? I have one of those and a Picasso II on my A4000D without issue (Indivision feeding in to the Picasso II, Picasso II sending to monitor).

Hold down both mouse buttons, boot with no startup-sequence and see if you get a display. You can delete the preferences saved for your screen mode from the CLI prompt that opens. You can also look (dir) what monitors are in DEVS:monitors

[iowtheme]

addon video card on two chip
the 1st board with loads of chips and the 2nd fly off board has some text ( Eyetech Quality Assurance )

http://bboah.amiga-resistance.info/c...cgi?HARDID=361

This is it

I have now managed to get in to WB back up and in monitor founder two file RetinaBLT and PAL and nothing else

[iowtheme]

In the monitor folder two file RetinaBLT and PAL, I have now move to a Backup folder and reboot amiga back and running and the A4000d is running form the chip video addon and not the RetinaBLT card, I have a VGA switcher box in line. now at a dead end . Iwould like to try and grt the best video quality is possible but with no luck

[SnkBitten]

Pretty similar to the Indivision AGA.

The retina doesn't look to have pass-thru abilities so you'd need to have a Retina (P96) mode selected in Screenmode if you are plugged in to that, otherwise plug in to your DCE Flicker Magic to see what you had before installing P96. You'll need a monitor in each though, one for Amiga screens and the other for P96 screens and screens that can be promoted to RTG.

[iowtheme]

when you are in WinUae I cannot transter from amiga opus to PC folder it says it is right protect I am running Win 10 any help plz

[iowtheme]

this has help fix WinUAE and PC
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[iowtheme]

OK guy

still have not got the CD/DVD Rom to work.

I have install WB 3.9 OS form CD in WinUAE and setup CD with WB 3.9 CD driver installer
I have done two way to install, one is SCSI Direct, or Diskchange Interrupt, and it makes no difference then WB load up on my A4000D it show CD0:uninitialized and will not see OS3.9 CD

Put CD to unit 0 then i get CD0:uninitialized or put unit 1 then it can not see it.

You already know it IDE drive conneted through IDE adapter made by Amigakit.com


/***************************************************************/
/* CacheCDFS mountlist entry © 2000 Amiga Inc. */
/***************************************************************/
FileSystem = L:CacheCDFS /* The name of the game */
Device = "scsi.device" /* Name of exec device driver */
Unit = 0 /* exec device unit */
Flags = 0 /* OpenDevice flags */
BlocksPerTrack = 351000 /* Unused */
BlockSize = 2048 /* True, but unused */
Mask = 0x7ffffffe /* Memory mask for direct read */
MaxTransfer = 0x1000000 /* Maximum amount of bytes for direct read */
Reserved = 0 /* Unused */
Interleave = 0 /* Unused */
LowCyl = 0 /* Unused */
HighCyl = 0 /* Unused */
Surfaces = 1 /* Unused */
Buffers = 50 /* Number of cache lines */
BufMemType = 1 /* MEMF_PUBLIC */
BootPri = 2 /* Boot priority for MountCD */
GlobVec = -1 /* Do not change! */
Mount = 1 /* Mount it immediately */
Priority = 10 /* Priority of FileSystem task */
DosType = 0x43443031 /* Currently unused */
StackSize = 3000 /* Minimum stack required is 3000! */
Control = "MD=0 LC=1 DC=8 L LV AL LFC=1 S NC AUDIO=Utilities/PlayCD"
/* The Control field is for special adjustments */
/* L/S convert all file/volume names to lowercase */
/* LV/S convert volume names to lowercase */
/* AL/S Auto-Lower converts only non-Amiga CDs */
/* LFC/N start converting at this character */
/* LC/N/A number of blocks per cache line */
/* DC/N/A number of cache lines for the data cache */
/* MD/N/A number of blocks, when starting direct read, not using */
/* the cache. 0 will be a reasonable default (LC*DC+1) */
/* S/S Do SCSI direct commands, no Trackdisk like commands! */
/* NC/S Do NOT use TD_ADDCHANGEINT, poll for DiskChange! */
/* M/S Issue a TD_MOTOR (OFF) command after read */


I do not want to install IDEfix97

can any one help me resolve this issue

[SnkBitten]

What version is your scsi.device? Mine is 43.45.
in a shell windows type: version scsi.device

What does it return as the version? You have to have a patched scsi.device to use the A4000's ide (scsi.device) controller for atapi devices like a CDRom.

Also is your CDrom on 0 or 1? What is your CF-Card reader on? It's going to be 0 or 1 as well.... 0 should be MASTER and 1 should be SLAVE.

Run HDToolBox and select scsi.device (it should show that and possibly warpdrive.device if you have that in devs:..maybe a few more devices) and what are the devices listed on the scsi.device? You can see in mine that the CF-Card is on "id 0" and the DVD-RW drive is on "id 1"


Now my CD0 file (which I keep in WBStartup instead of DEVS: Dosdrivers) and since my CD is "id 1" as HDToolBox showed, I have to have it match in here as being "unit=1"


and CacheCDFS