How to softkick A4000 with A3630 (with MMU)?

duga · 29 January 2011, 17:59

I have 3.0 ROMs in my A4000. The CPU card is a 3630 (030/25 + MMU + FPU) but lacks maprom jumper. That means that Blizkick won't work.

Right now the drive is found from cold boot but not from warm reset which means that I always have to turn off/on the computer when I want to reboot. What can I do to solve this problem (except buying 3.1 ROMs)?

IDE HDD is configured as master, IDE CDROM is configured as slave.

Edit: made the fault symptom a bit more clear.

jrom · 29 January 2011, 21:30

try skick.

cosmicfrog · 30 January 2011, 13:16

but surely the drive is still spinning from a warm boot or am I missing something ??

sounds more like a software fault to me, that is a patch or something

AmigaFriend · 30 January 2011, 14:21

If the problem is drive not spinning fast enough making a warm boot resolves your problem. It's a no brainer and you have no problems at all having to configure skick.

Skick never worked for me on A3640 until I've found that the board had a MAPROM feature (yes, 14 years later!

) and Blizkick worked really well. But try it on your board to see if it works.

duga · 30 January 2011, 15:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by cosmicfrog

but surely the drive is still spinning from a warm boot or am I missing something ??

sounds more like a software fault to me, that is a patch or something

I'm sorry, of course the disk are still spinning after a warm boot.

I've heard that one solution is to cut off wire 1 on the IDE cable?

Quote:

Originally Posted by xpect

If the problem is drive not spinning fast enough making a warm boot resolves your problem. It's a no brainer and you have no problems at all having to configure skick.

Skick never worked for me on A3640 until I've found that the board had a MAPROM feature (yes, 14 years later!

) and Blizkick worked really well. But try it on your board to see if it works.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showha...cgi?HARDID=222 says that a "U100" is needed. Haven't checked if my A3630 has one, probably not.

duga · 25 June 2011, 13:59

Solved the IDE warm boot problem by changing from 8 GB Western Digital WD80EB to a 420 MB Quantum Trailblazer.

29 January 2011, 17:59	#1
duga Registered User Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Sweden Posts: 528	How to softkick A4000 with A3630 (with MMU)? I have 3.0 ROMs in my A4000. The CPU card is a 3630 (030/25 + MMU + FPU) but lacks maprom jumper. That means that Blizkick won't work. Right now the drive is found from cold boot but not from warm reset which means that I always have to turn off/on the computer when I want to reboot. What can I do to solve this problem (except buying 3.1 ROMs)? IDE HDD is configured as master, IDE CDROM is configured as slave. Edit: made the fault symptom a bit more clear. Last edited by duga; 30 January 2011 at 15:56.

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29 January 2011, 21:30	#2
jrom Wannabe asm coder ;) Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Netherlands Age: 47 Posts: 459	try skick.

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cosmicfrog The 1 who ribbits Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: leek, Staffs, UK Age: 56 Posts: 3,557	but surely the drive is still spinning from a warm boot or am I missing something ?? sounds more like a software fault to me, that is a patch or something

30 January 2011, 14:21	#4
AmigaFriend Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Sesimbra/Portugal Posts: 1,462	If the problem is drive not spinning fast enough making a warm boot resolves your problem. It's a no brainer and you have no problems at all having to configure skick. Skick never worked for me on A3640 until I've found that the board had a MAPROM feature (yes, 14 years later! ) and Blizkick worked really well. But try it on your board to see if it works.

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