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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Darmaster70 on February 19, 2003, 01:55:35 PM

Title: Help with A4K boot problem
Post by: Darmaster70 on February 19, 2003, 01:55:35 PM

I installed a new harddrive in one of my A4K's and installed AOS3.1. The machine has 3.1 roms. The machine boots just fine but if I do a ctrl+A+A to do a keyboard reset the machine asks me for a boot disk. I've tried two different hard drives. Should I try to reseat my roms? Any ideas? Thanks

Title: Re: Help with A4K boot problem
Post by: MrZammler on February 19, 2003, 02:01:03 PM

When you reboot using ctrl+A+A, and pressing both mouse buttons, does your HD appear in the early startup menu?

Title: Re: Help with A4K boot problem
Post by: Darmaster70 on February 19, 2003, 02:21:05 PM

Haven't tried that but I will and let you know.

Title: Re: Help with A4K boot problem
Post by: voxel on February 19, 2003, 04:09:26 PM

Hi :^)

Seems to be the old Hard Drive Reset problem ;

When powering on your Amiga, does it take long or short time before the new hard disk begin to boot?

If the A4K waits for the HD finish it's spin up before booting on it and loose the HD upon reboot you can try to disconnect the IDE HD reset pin from the drive's cable (that's the red wire connected to motherboard IDE connector pin 1 and HD pin 1).

That worked for many many drives in the past :^)

Amigalement,

JF

Title: Re: Help with A4K boot problem
Post by: Darmaster70 on February 19, 2003, 05:08:22 PM

Come to think of it, it takes quite a long time for it boot from hard drive.

Title: Re: Help with A4K boot problem
Post by: SilvrDrgn on February 19, 2003, 06:08:42 PM

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(that's the red wire connected to motherboard IDE connector pin 1 and HD pin 1).

Uuummm... not always.  Some IDE ribbon cables don't have any color coded wires at all.  Some that do, don't have the "key" in them so they can only be plugged in one way.  In that case you'll be cutting pin 40-something if the cable is connected reversed on both ends.  The only way to be truly sure you're cutting the pin 1 connection is to check the motherboard and the drive connectors for the location of that pin.