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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: amiga1084 on July 04, 2006, 02:36:58 PM
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Hello All,
I know they could not fit Scsi and Ide device together, so
they had to leave out Workbench Library and place it on disk.
Why the F**k couldn't they leave out the Ide device instead.
Amiga OS friendly software (disk) I have in my collection
would simply not boot up.Works fine on my A4000 desktop
A1200 Apollo 040,CD32/SX1.I pulled out Escom PC crap disk
drive and replaced it with genuine Amiga HD slimline Chiron
drive (that came out of A4000 desktop) I bought from ebay
which works perfect.But stil makes no diffrents.A4000T was
meant to be professional Amiga in it's day the built in Scsi
2 controller is excellent.
I have my CDWrite and 2 CDStackers hook up to it, while the
4 u/w Scsi harddrive is hook to my Cyberstorm PPC Scsi
controller.On my A4000 desktop I made hack to disable the
Ide controller and use the Warp Engine Scsi Controller.
Could I make this hack to disable Ide controller as it's
little slow during boot up or won't it make a difference.
I like to hear your comments Merv
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Well, i wish they had leave everything out of the ROM. It would be much easier to update OS components this way.
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hold on a second,
what kind of software are you trying to run?
if it needs workbench.library, then would it not be running in workbench off of a hard disk with workbench.library on it? IDE or SCSI whatever...
games don't need librarys, most applications are fairly self contained, so the only thing i can think of is you are trying to re-install workbench, but have not got a disk with workbench.library on it?
whats going on to cause you this much grief?
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For example programs like Relokick, which works fine
on both my A4000 desktop machines both Warp Engines,A1200
Apollo (040) and CD32/SX1.But crashes like crazy on my A4000T!
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hmm, relokick has nothing to do with the onboard roms apart from softkicking the machine from a different area of memory (usually holding much older, say 1.3 rom images).
i've run relokick on my old A4000T many times till i found WHDload, without any problems...
but any other roms wouldn't know about the A4000T's onboard SCSI, less than version 3.x wouldn't know about the onboard IDE or high density floppy drive, less than version 2.x would have problems with 040+ software...
doesn't solve this one though...
i take it everything is pressed in firmly, CPU card, roms, simms etc?
your other A4000's and A1200, are they on 3.1 roms too?
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Hey, relax, it's nothing to get so worked up over.
If it's system-friendly software you need to run, you've got 2 options: run it from the hard drive, or copy workbench.library to whatever floppy you're booting from.
And consider WHDLoad in place of Relokick. Far more compatible.
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amiga1084 wrote:
Why the F**k couldn't they leave out the Ide device instead.
Cos then you'd have loads of people complaining that they can't boot from an IDE drive? :ranting:
Could I make this hack to disable Ide controller as it's
little slow during boot up or won't it make a difference.
If it worked on your A4000 I can't see why it won't work on your A4000T.
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Make a new ROM 8-)
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moto