A4000 IDE just died

T_hairy_bootson · 26 July 2008, 12:11

My a4000 on board IDE just stopped working. Couldn't access my HD all of a sudden and now it wont boot the HDD. Have tried my 1200 HDD in the 4000 with no luck but the 4000 HDD works in the 1200.

Any ideas? Suggestions?

musashi5150 · 26 July 2008, 14:56

I remember one of my A4000s started having troubles with it's IDE. I ended up slapping a Buddha in there and she's been good as gold ever since.

T_hairy_bootson · 26 July 2008, 16:34

Tempting... might see if I can source an accelerator with onboard scsi first and if that fails might have to go for the buddha. Thanks for the suggestion musashi.

Bloodwych · 26 July 2008, 16:42

Blah, I feel for you T_hairy.

Depressing when some Amiga kit starts to bite the dust. They are getting long in the tooth now and I'm guessing these reports are going to be cropping up more and more.

Hope you get it sorted mate.

keropi · 26 July 2008, 17:01

accelerator with scsi? bah, ancient disks, huge cables and no point IMHO...
a buddha is awesome, it just works excellent

T_hairy_bootson · 26 July 2008, 17:16

well I could do with an accelerator anyways and some extra ram. May just get the buddha until something better comes along... I just bought a cybervision 64/3D and that was posted yesterday from Sweden, wont be able to use it until I get this sorted.

chiark · 26 July 2008, 21:27

Grounding, or moreover a shorting issue?

I had some weird stuff happen on one machine and I reckon it was down to a short somewhere which eventually took out the warpengine

T_hairy_bootson · 27 July 2008, 02:11

You raise a very good point there chiark. When something goes wrong on one of my computers I usually look for something that has changed that could of caused the issue. The only thing different in this case is I have a heavy monitor sat on the a4000 with a round swivel base. Perhaps pushing down on the zorro riser and in turn pushing down the mobo which could be be making contact somewhere. Will strip it down at some stage and test it out.

T_hairy_bootson · 02 August 2008, 04:08

Got some time to pull it apart and test it further, no luck I'm afraid, the 4000 seems to work fine besides the internal IDE. I placed a piece of paper under the mobo to make sure it wasnt shorting to the case but the same result. If I plug the IDE cable in the wrong way I get a white screen, if I plug it in the right way it just goes to the kickstart screen. Looks like I may have to order a buddha card just to use it now.

T_hairy_bootson · 02 August 2008, 15:05

Bit the bullet and ordered a buddha from amigakit. Spending way more than intended this month on amiga stuff

jurgen36 · 04 August 2008, 18:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by T_hairy_bootson

Bit the bullet and ordered a buddha from amigakit. Spending way more than intended this month on amiga stuff

Hello friend.
Got a Buddha adapter last week also from amigakit, only took 4 days from the time I ordered it to arrive here in Perth. normally it takes 7 days or more from the eastern states. But we have direct flights from Perth to London.

Anyway, I had initially great problems for the A2000 to recognize the IDE controller. Finally one of our gurus told me to try different zorro slots. Well this did not seem to work either. But then I removed the GVP HD8 scsci card which was in slot 2, plugged the Buddha in and it was recognized straight away. I put the scsci card into slot number 5. All worked fine. I fitted an 80 GB IDE drive and arranged for the first partition to be only 512 MB, if I made it bigger the Buddha adapter could not write to the drive. After installation I split the remaining space into 5 partitions of 15GB each. All got recognized ok. So if you have problems with medium sized drives play around a bit until it works.
Regards

mfletcher · 04 August 2008, 19:06

I just got a Buddha from AmigaKit too a couple of weeks ago. Over the weekend I fitted it to the A2000 that Ive been re-habbing. Worked fine out of the box with the CF drive I attached to it. Awesome!

Fingerlickin_B · 05 August 2008, 02:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by mfletcher

Worked fine out of the box with the CF drive I attached to it. Awesome!

Really? I never bothered to try a CF card with mine due to this statement:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chain

buddha will not work with cf, only with regular ssd.
I dont know why. But i have confirmed it from Jens Schonfeld directly.

Maybe I should just go ahead & try it anyway if it worked for you!

PZ.

jurgen36 · 05 August 2008, 03:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by mfletcher

I just got a Buddha from AmigaKit too a couple of weeks ago. Over the weekend I fitted it to the A2000 that Ive been re-habbing. Worked fine out of the box with the CF drive I attached to it. Awesome!

How did you get the CF drive going??? I tried just about anything and the Buddha Phoenix card will not see the CF cards at all. The three different cards all work in my A600 and A1200 machines. The Buddha will see all normal hard drives ok. Must be something else I am doing wrong. Well we always learn new things.
Regards

rkauer · 05 August 2008, 04:41

The Budha is bitch, concerning CF drives.

26 July 2008, 12:11	#1
T_hairy_bootson Workbitch 1.3 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 46 Posts: 2,084	A4000 IDE just died My a4000 on board IDE just stopped working. Couldn't access my HD all of a sudden and now it wont boot the HDD. Have tried my 1200 HDD in the 4000 with no luck but the 4000 HDD works in the 1200. Any ideas? Suggestions?

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26 July 2008, 14:56	#2
musashi5150 move.w #$4489,$dff07e Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Norfolk, UK Age: 42 Posts: 2,351	I remember one of my A4000s started having troubles with it's IDE. I ended up slapping a Buddha in there and she's been good as gold ever since.

26 July 2008, 16:34	#3
T_hairy_bootson Workbitch 1.3 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 46 Posts: 2,084	Tempting... might see if I can source an accelerator with onboard scsi first and if that fails might have to go for the buddha. Thanks for the suggestion musashi.

26 July 2008, 16:42	#4
Bloodwych Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I'm behind you! Posts: 3,763	Blah, I feel for you T_hairy. Depressing when some Amiga kit starts to bite the dust. They are getting long in the tooth now and I'm guessing these reports are going to be cropping up more and more. Hope you get it sorted mate.

26 July 2008, 17:01	#5
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	accelerator with scsi? bah, ancient disks, huge cables and no point IMHO... a buddha is awesome, it just works excellent

26 July 2008, 17:16	#6
T_hairy_bootson Workbitch 1.3 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 46 Posts: 2,084	well I could do with an accelerator anyways and some extra ram. May just get the buddha until something better comes along... I just bought a cybervision 64/3D and that was posted yesterday from Sweden, wont be able to use it until I get this sorted.

26 July 2008, 21:27	#7
chiark Needs a life Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: England Posts: 1,707	Grounding, or moreover a shorting issue? I had some weird stuff happen on one machine and I reckon it was down to a short somewhere which eventually took out the warpengine

27 July 2008, 02:11	#8
T_hairy_bootson Workbitch 1.3 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 46 Posts: 2,084	You raise a very good point there chiark. When something goes wrong on one of my computers I usually look for something that has changed that could of caused the issue. The only thing different in this case is I have a heavy monitor sat on the a4000 with a round swivel base. Perhaps pushing down on the zorro riser and in turn pushing down the mobo which could be be making contact somewhere. Will strip it down at some stage and test it out.

02 August 2008, 04:08	#9
T_hairy_bootson Workbitch 1.3 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 46 Posts: 2,084	Got some time to pull it apart and test it further, no luck I'm afraid, the 4000 seems to work fine besides the internal IDE. I placed a piece of paper under the mobo to make sure it wasnt shorting to the case but the same result. If I plug the IDE cable in the wrong way I get a white screen, if I plug it in the right way it just goes to the kickstart screen. Looks like I may have to order a buddha card just to use it now.

02 August 2008, 15:05	#10
T_hairy_bootson Workbitch 1.3 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 46 Posts: 2,084	Bit the bullet and ordered a buddha from amigakit. Spending way more than intended this month on amiga stuff

04 August 2008, 19:06	#12
mfletcher Bawbag. Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Chicago, USA Posts: 375	I just got a Buddha from AmigaKit too a couple of weeks ago. Over the weekend I fitted it to the A2000 that Ive been re-habbing. Worked fine out of the box with the CF drive I attached to it. Awesome!

05 August 2008, 04:41	#15
rkauer I hate potatos and shirts Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Sao Leopoldo / Brazil Age: 58 Posts: 3,482	The Budha is bitch, concerning CF drives.

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