Buddha 2018

[mechy]

Yeah, and it's all just nonsense. I am telling you as someone who due to  guarantees and support agreements have had to use so called industrial CF and SD cards in various equipment. All experience says it's better, safer, cheaper and more convenient to use off-the-shelf SanDisk cards rather than whatever they ship as "industrial" cards to their OEM partners.

The reason he recommends industrial cards is because all industrial cf's are set to fixed disk mode. the old buddha(and idefix iirc) had problems with non fixed disk cards,which is why he did the true ide thing.

Industrial flash use SLC flash while most other consumer/commercial cards use MLC.

[kolla]

Industrial flash use SLC flash while most other consumer/commercial cards use MLC.

That's some time ago, though. MLC has evolved with consumer product demands, lots of testing and usage by the millions, today there is eMLC (e as in "enterprise") and TLC too flying around. What matters though, is what works, for how long, and how it fails, and it seems to me that many so called "industry" cards are (if not were) rebranded cheap-skate cards.

[PanterHZ]

Well, I went ahead and bought two of these adapters - we'll see. I'm more interested if they'll work with the IDE4Zorro card. I'll probably get the new Buddha depending on how all these troubles get worked out. I see that Acill also has tried many different drives & adapters to no avail. I've been looking at these adapters for a while though so, pulled the trigger.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/40pin-IDE-to-CF-Compact-Flash-Bracket-for-Commodore-Amiga-4000-A4000-Mac-PC/282845240303?hash=item41dae3dbef:g:qFEAAOSwnbZYDZc5

I will consider this type of adapter to be among the best ones out there, because unlike so many others, it actually does have proper Master/Slave functionality. Not like those who have extra solder pads for another CF slot on the back, where the system will see this as some kind of non-existing Slave being present.

I'm pretty sure that you can attach both of your adapters to the same cable if you like, and they will work in perfect harmony.

[giZmo350]

I will consider this type of adapter to be among the best ones out there, because unlike so many others, it actually does have proper Master/Slave functionality. Not like those who have extra solder pads for another CF slot on the back, where the system will see this as some kind of non-existing Slave being present.

Thanks for the vote of confidence! I was wondering... how come on some these adapters you see a jumper for 3.3vdc and 5vdc?

I'm pretty sure that you can attach both of your adapters to the same cable if you like, and they will work in perfect harmony.

I didn't think of that... good to know 'cause in the case of the IDE4Zorro you need to run IDEFix97 when using the secondary port - with both adapters on the same cable it would eliminate the need for that.

I got to thinking that these might work very well in an Intel DOS machine and even a Win98 (which hates USB!) machine where a removable media would come in very handy. I use my DOS machine as much as I do my Amigas. (Just got all the Tex Murphy adventures on CD!) :lol:

I snagged a couple of these too - just for the heck of it!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Transcend-4GB-Vertical-PATA-IDE-SLC-Flash-DOM-40-pin-Female-TS4GDOM40V-S/302627811533?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

[Blatboy]

@lost_loven - Did you ever get the original DOM to boot?

[lost_loven]

@lost_loven - Did you ever get the original DOM to boot?

Nope.. But got email from Jens to try cleaning my daughter board slots and I was waiting for the ok to try in other ide  port. And the master slave switch on the DOM doesn't effect nothing apparently. Will try after work today.

[Blatboy]

Cool.  He said the same thing to me.  I'll hopefully have the time to clean mine today as well. You and I have a very similar setup...

(A3000D, 3640, scsi2sd, buster 11...)

[DStastny]

Mine recognized the shipped DOM but nothing I plugged into second port worked so until this "flash" that hopefully will fix. If its CPL fix another piece of junk.  I got unstable A2630 that is too expensive to ship back to Germany to fix.

I have to say I have 4 things from Individual,  a C64 reloaded works great.  ECS ScanDoubler works great.   A2630 Piece of crap and now Buddha.  

Not sure Individual computing will be seeing any more of my money.

:angry:
Doug

[giZmo350]

Per EAB thread......

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=90081

Confirmed working:
Seagate, ST34321A, 4.3GB, XY454813, 3.41
Maxtor, 7171AT, D8069HWS, 170MB
WD, D160BB-00GUC0, 160GB,
Seagate, ST3630A - 958004-030, 630MB, CBMSJESB07, 22-22.06-A1
Seagate Barracuda, ST340016A, 40GB, 3HSA5VLW, 3.19
Seagate ST3290A, 260MB,
WD, 64AA, 6448.6MB, WM653 171 2986

(there's a thread on the facebook CommodoreAmiga page about this)

Designing the new Buddha with those 40pin connectors... did Jens really expect everyone to go digging for old IDE hard drives? :crazy:

[lost_loven]

I didn't clean anything (will on the weekend), but did swap over the dom and no go there. Maybe I just wait for the firmware update and the Amiga JTAG tool to carry on.

Cheers

[Blatboy]

Cool.  I cleaned mine today but had to split the studio.  I'll put it back together and test tomorrow.  I have my doubts (being that you and I are having similar issues) but I'll give 'er ye olde college try!

[PanterHZ]

Thanks for the vote of confidence! I was wondering... how come on some these adapters you see a jumper for 3.3vdc and 5vdc?

It could be the voltage rating or something.

I didn't think of that... good to know 'cause in the case of the IDE4Zorro you need to run IDEFix97 when using the secondary port - with both adapters on the same cable it would eliminate the need for that.

I got to thinking that these might work very well in an Intel DOS machine and even a Win98 (which hates USB!) machine where a removable media would come in very handy. I use my DOS machine as much as I do my Amigas. (Just got all the Tex Murphy adventures on CD!) :lol:

I have seen these adapters being used for DOS and early Windows machines on several YouTube videos.

What really sucked about Win98 was all those blue screens telling me how to turn off of my PC + the absolutely terrible USB support. That being said, I recently came across some old backup CDs that may contain my good old Win98 setup. It would be fun to see if I could manage to restore them to a emulated PC.

[gary2000]

Mine recognized the shipped DOM but nothing I plugged into second port worked so until this "flash" that hopefully will fix. If its CPL fix another piece of junk.  I got unstable A2630 that is too expensive to ship back to Germany to fix.

I have to say I have 4 things from Individual,  a C64 reloaded works great.  ECS ScanDoubler works great.   A2630 Piece of crap and now Buddha.  

Not sure Individual computing will be seeing any more of my money.

:angry:
Doug

I agree with you.

I thought about giving him another chance and purchasing this Buddha, but now I am glad I did not.

 I tried to be fair and give him every opportunity to support the product (A2630) and do not think that I'm being unreasonable to want a resolution.

It is too bad, as I have many other products from him and they work fine.

Glad to see others are producing upgrades to look into.

[klx300r]

I can boot from DOM but for some reason when I attach my 'real' IDE drive to the 2nd port of the Buddha (jumpered as slave) it boots up to my WB..tried going into startup menu screen to disable drive as bootable but still same issue?
take out real HD and it boots up to DOM no problem...just ordered another DOM as the one I have for my 1200 is 2.5" and need 3.5" for the 2nd port in Buddha so hopefully that works and wanted to get rid of my CF HD as they always seem to go bad on me after a year or so no matter what type I use

[kolla]

How about configuring boot priority on your partitions properly using hdtoolbox or some other tool?

You cannot disable "as bootable" in early startup, but you can tell what filesystem to boot from and disable devices entirely. Note that if you use OS3.5+, LoadModule and/or Setpatch will reboot again, and then not care what you selected to boot from (unless you go to early startup again).

I recommend you look at this program that lets you install many early menu config settings as resident from CLI (not just VGA mode):

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/bootctrl

[klx300r]

@ kolla

thanks for the reminder tip:) changed boot priority in HD Tool Box to higher value and then WB booted up normally with Buddha Install folder on it:hammer:
All fine now so just have to wait for my new 40 pin DOM to arrive to copy my WB partition on 'real' IDE HD over to it & all good!

I thought the DOM that came with the Buddha had some install files to go into WB but it's just a partition/disk prep util with WB 3.1 on it & some other stuff

..come to think of it I'm gonna keep that small DOM as my Boot HD backup since you can nver have enough of em