Amiga 4000 takes eight minutes to boot (solved) sort of

[David Wright]

As previously stated I have no better luck on wait time if I just do basic boot up with insert disk prompt.
As of now I have the 3.1 roms installed and no different.

Removed jumper on D and no change.
Ram installed on Warp 128mb, 18mb on MB. All tested and good.
When I installed OS 3.2 I used Winuae  but again, the issue persists with out a boot from there.

Thanks all for staying with me on this.

[Pat the Cat]

... E and L jumpers have to be set.

Maybe if they are not, the Warp tests all memory for errors?

[davideo]

So with the auto boot switched off does it still take 8 minutes to show the Rom screen?

[David Wright]

Yes

[davideo]

Have you tried another CPU board?

If you're in the UK I can lend you a 030 CPU board for testing

[David Wright]

Using another cpu board was discussed earlier in the thread. That is the next logical step . Thanks for the offer but I am in Michigan.

[davideo]

Apologies I missed that

[mechy]

Thanks for the picture,
I see nothing wrong with the jumpers other than "D" should be removed to have no wait state ram(if its 60ns ram,remove it).
this would no affect anything.

Are the Amiga motherboard jumpers set to EXT?

even if boot delays were set and luns scanning on it still wouldnt take that much time.
I am using the warpengine in a A4000 with scsi card reader and full device and lun scans and it is still pretty quick.

Its a perplexing problem you have there.

[davideo]

On your photo you appear to have the SCSI cable inserted mid run of the cable.

Is anything fitted on each end of the cable currently?

[David Wright]

I show here the scsi ribbon set up, connecting on card, CD and back plate scsi connector.
I also try booting with cable completely disconnected.

Also show jumper connection on MB for Mechy.

[davideo]

If you've got a SCSI device on each end of the cable you need to remove the termination on the WarpEngine.

[David Wright]

I believe I removed them now. Are they the three pins aligned in a row next to scsi cable connection?

[davideo]

This is my 3rd attempt at replying to this lol

As far as I can see they should be the ones.

Have you got a copy of the manual?

[David Wright]

Yes checked manual. Thats it. No change.
I’m thinking scsi problems aren’t it.
This hobby is fun.

[davideo]

It certainly is with my 4000D as well.

It's been it bits for a year and I'm now just putting it back together after sorting out a few things.

I've installed 3.2 but it seems very slow so I'm going to try it with 3.9 again.

[mechy]

Everything looks ok settings wise.
Here is the warp engine manual: http://amiga.resource.cx/manual/WarpEngine.pdf

Someone mentioned you have the middle of the cable connected to the scsi card? this is not recommended,but since you had scsi completely disconnected with no change its likely not the problem.