08 August 2010, 20:13 | #1 |
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Amiga 4000d booting
I recently took the dust off my A4000d decided to install WB 3.1 to the
1 Gig ide hard drive used the install disk preped the drive then installed WB 3.1, but i have a slight problem that whenever i switch the system on it just boots to the kickstart rom and floppy disk image, it will not boot straight into the hard drive, but if i then reset the system with CTRL and both amiga keys it then does reboot into the Hard drive, I am running kick rom 3.1 with just IDE hard drive and floppy disk attached no other cards or addons with exception of 16meg fast ram and 2 meg chip ram installed. |
08 August 2010, 22:17 | #2 |
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I think this is quite common, more-so with CF cards though.
Happens with my Kingston 4gb CF about 50% of the time. |
08 August 2010, 22:40 | #3 |
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This is happening because the HD is taking too long to spin up and become ready from cold. The Amiga gives up looking for it and goes to the insert floppy screen. But as you've found when you do a warm reset all is well (as it's already spun up).
I'd say you've got 2 choices: 1) Live with it 2) Swap the HD for another one that spins up quicker |
08 August 2010, 22:43 | #4 |
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Thanks for the advice, think i might try a different hard drive, got a few old IDE ones kicking around, thanks again
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I suspect there is something else going on here. And why on earth would a CF card be slow to respond or "spin-up"? I wonder if this is a peculiarity of the Kingston CF brand? Last edited by prowler; 10 August 2010 at 23:23. Reason: Typo |
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In fact come to think of it, since I installed the Blizzard SCSI kit (yesterday) it hasn't happened since so the SCSI delay must be helping... |
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