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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: artstew on March 01, 2008, 06:23:07 AM
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I thought I could do this without bothering anyone on the forum, but…here goes. I just got my Buddha flash phoenix edition from amigakit (great service by the way) and as I’m not sure what time it is over there and whether the store is open; I thought I’d ask here. I’m not sure of the orientation of the card in the zorro slot. I’m putting it in an A2000. Should the ide (never thought I’d be saying that about my 2000) connectors on the Buddha board be facing the mounted floppy drives or away from the drives towards the other zorro slots and the inactive isa slots? There are also 3 jumpers on the card. Do I need to short any of these or change them if I'm going to boot from the card. The directions were a bit unclear on this in the instructions and the manual is not on the Individual Computers site. That’s all I need to know as I think I can complete the rest of the install OK. Thanks much!
I saw the other thread about the Buddha flash but I can't find the info I'm looking for. Should I have continued on that thread?
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Fitting it into an A2000, you need to put the card in the zorro slot with the IDE headers facing the floppy drives.
Robert
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Thanks! Will do. Anyone know anything about the jumpers.
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what jumpers? IIRC there are no jumpers, just 2-pins to connect there the HD light :-D
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OK. My mistake, but I do believe there is a jumper next to the boot rom. I'm assuming this controls the auto boot. :-o
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I just connected a Buddha Flash Phoenix Edition to a bare bones Amiga 2000. I inserted it in a Zorro slot with components facing the disk drives.
1. All I get is a white screen.
2. The disk drives don't light up.
3. Same problem if I disconnect the HD and just leave the board in the Zorro slot.
4. When I remove the board from the Amiga, it boots from floppy again.
5. Does this board require that the OS be installed on the HD first?
6. And yes, there's a jumper on that board. Anybody know what that's for?
Has anyone had this problem? Is my Buddha dead?
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This is how I got mine going. First I’m using os3.1. I started out by making a install disk that had the updated ffs v44.5 http://main.aminet.net/pub/aminet/disk/misc/ffstd64.lha from Oliver Kastl
and elaborate-bytes, and instead of hdtoolbox I used hdinstTool from elaborate-bytes
http://main.aminet.net/pub/aminet/disk/misc/hdinst.lha. I got both on aminet (both support the td64 commands). You’ll have to patch your file system first before you make your copy. (I’m sure you know all this)
I put these on a 1.78mb high density disk I use as my os3.1 install disk. You could also copy them to another disk to use if you want. I stripped down my 2000 to my gvp A3001 Series II with 28 megs of ram and a floppy. I put in the Buddha card and used scsi.device as the Buddha device name. The docs didn’t include this info (at least I didn’t see it). hdinstTool recognized it and I was ready to go. I partitioned my 40gb. Hd0 I only made 800mb but the rest were 4gb each. I also read that when you format that large of a drive just use quick format. I used commodore’s format program from 3.1 and amazingly everything worked. I installed the os and went to the next step - Installing a cd rewritable drive.
The first drive I tried didn’t work. It froze everything up. I read in a thread here (I probably should have used that thread but didn’t see it until later) that the Buddha does that with some drives so I tried a different one and it worked. I installed the drive using the Buddha install disk and it works like a charm. I haven’t had time to test burning a cd yet but it reads fine.
Next was the fun part. I’ve been using a gvp Impact A2000-HC Series II card with a 36gb hard drive, but it was acting flaky with the large hd. (Extra partitions that weren’t there) but it had been usable. I plugged that in to get my files I needed. I had a lot of files! It took a while but I got them transferred fine. I then took out the gvp scsi card and put in my piccolo card. It runs very nice with this setup. I don't think there's anything else I did that I forgot. I hope this helps you.
I'm having another problem that involves the buddha that I'll put in another post.
I forgot about the jumper-I didn't change it.
:-D
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Well,
Just having the Buddha card in a Zorro slot kept my Amiga 2000 from booting. This is a Rev 4.4 motherboard.
I just installed the Buddha in another 2000 (rev. 6.1) and it recognized my new hard drives just fine.
Not sure what the problem was with the older mb.
I'll keep your notes in mind when I try to hook up a CD drive.
Fester
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I also bought the Buddha controller a few months ago and posted my findings here (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26329). I never actually found a solution to the problems I described there, so if any of you guys have any clues on how to get the CF card running on it I would be very grateful... :-D
Because of that I actually never managed to use the card... So right now it's just another piece of amiga hardware I have lying around unused... :-(
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After installing the Buddha card my 2000 is running great. But of course, I’m playing so I can’t stop here. This is the problem I’m having now. I’m trying to put an external scsi zip and an external scsi cd reader in, but without a hard drive the gvp card locks up and won’t allow me to boot.
If I take the autoboot jumper off it boots and runs fine but the system won’t see the drives I have hooked to the gvp. The system sees the card but when I go into hdinstTools it shows no drives attached. It should at least show them as unsupported. I’ve checked my termination (fine) and the device chain settings and they’re set right.
I’m thinking the problem might be when everything is validating. Also there are some ID Jumpers on the gvp card that I’m not sure about. They have no jumpers on them now. If anyone know anything more about incompatibility between gvp and Buddha cards and what to do, Please help me! I saw something about this in the other Buddha thread but it was about os3.9 and I’m using 3.1. :-?
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I read this thread when I was trying to install mine. I'm not planning on putting a CF card in mine so I won't be much help right now. I'm going to keep looking about the gvp scsi incompatibility problem and if I see anything or hear anything about the CF card issues, I'll let you know. I also got mine from amigakit and was impressed. 7 days from England to Midwest U.S. Not bad! And the shipping was reasonable. :-D
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Fester, I should have mentioned I also have a newer revision motherboard. Mine is a 6.0. I hope the cd info helps. By the way, any suggestions about my compatibility issues? :-(
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This is what I did.
I had spare 2gb hd - hooked it into the scsi chain with my cd and zip and booooommmm!!! No, just kidding. It booted like normal and recognized all my drives. I think it has something to do with the card needing to see an rdb when it was validating. There's probably a way around this, but having an extra 2gb never hurt and I have room in the box. I think I'm about ready to put it all back together. Later. :-D
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artstew wrote:
Fester, I should have mentioned I also have a newer revision motherboard. Mine is a 6.0. I hope the cd info helps. By the way, any suggestions about my compatibility issues? :-(
Not at the moment. I'm very new to the Buddha. Just installed mine for the first time yesterday. I might be playing around with a DC drive today or soon...
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CF will not work. if you really need a silent drive, get a proper flashdrive. Im using Transcend 1Gig
http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/Modlist.asp?CatNo=87&LangNo=0
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keropi wrote:
what jumpers? IIRC there are no jumpers, just 2-pins to connect there the HD light :-D
Apologies for resurrecting an old thread but I just installed my Buddha Flash phoenix edition and I am also wondering about the jumper and what it does, also there are four pins on my card next to the clockport, I assume they are for the HD light(s)?
On the installation slip that came in the box it says to consult the manual on the website before trying to use the clockport (which sounds ominous), you should be able to find more detailed instructions on Individual Computers' website but I had no luck finding them..
Does anyone have a manual or a link to a manual that mentions the jumper, the pins and the clockport?
(Other than that I'm pretty happy with the card, 4gb IDE and CD Drive installed and working perfectly!)
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The Jumper is used to write protect the flash rom.
The four pins are the HD led lights : Top pins are for 2.5" & bottom for 3.5".
( found this on a cached page in google)
Still looking for the manual though...