Kipper2k A500 ide questions

[ikorodu]

After around 3 years of not doing any thing with it I tried installing my kipper2k ide 8mb board in an a500 yesterday.

After a lot of swearing and frequent reseating of the board I finally got it to boot.

I have a gotek with wb 3.1 and ks 3.1 is in the a500 rom.

Wb shows I now have 8mb of fast ram

BUT I tried to use hdtools and got nowhere. It appears that the ide is not there. I have a cf to sd adapter in the cf slot with a 2gb sd card in it. Do I need to do anything to the sd card before the amiga will see it? Or will I need to get a cf card to make this work?

Ta

Ikorodu

[kgc210]

Do you have the two wires connecting to your motherboard?
INT2 and OVR.

[ikorodu]

I have soldered the header to the main board as per the instructions. My soldering is not great but it appears to be firmly attached.

I could test for continuity if it's critical?

[ikorodu]

A quick update. I tested the soldered header and they test ok for continuity back to kippers board.

I have on old 512mb cf card that I'll try tommorrow.

[ikorodu]

Another update.

It would appear the board did not like my cf to sd card arrangement. The old 128MB(!) CF card however works a treat!

Now have workbench installed, which is nice.

One thing that keeps happening is that the board needs reseating quite a lot. Anyone found a solution to keep the board in place better?

[kgc210]

Sounds like you need a fresh 68k socket on your A500.
Not had any trouble in my A2000.

[fordav1]

yeah replace the DIP64 socket on motherboard. the pins on the bottom side of the kipper board (or any other similar add-in board) are thicker than chip legs so you can only put it in and out a few times then the socket opens up and needs to be replaced. the idea is you put the kipper board in then just leave it alone.