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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: kreciu on September 07, 2008, 04:19:11 PM

Title: FastATA - EmergencyDisc-no CD detection on scsi.device 2
Post by: kreciu on September 07, 2008, 04:19:11 PM

So I copy all the files (ata3.xxx)to Emergency Disc, edit Startup Sequence and try to boot from floppy disc...

The 2.5 CF-IDE is on Primary. DVD-rom is on Secondary as master.

When I boot the system is telling me that there is no device on scsi.device 3.

I can boot the system since the files from AmigaOS3.9 cd can't be loaded :(.

When DVD is on Primary with HDD and as a slave works fine (as default IDE controller...)

How to make FastATA work with Emergency Disc...

Title: Re: FastATA - EmergencyDisc-no CD detection on scsi.device 2
Post by: Darrin on September 07, 2008, 04:39:44 PM

Which FastATA are you talking about and which Emergency Disk (OS3.5 or OS3.9)?  What Amiga???

Oh, I see in your sig:  A1200!

Title: Re: FastATA - EmergencyDisc-no CD detection on scsi.device 2
Post by: Darrin on September 07, 2008, 04:45:50 PM

Assuming you're talking about OS3.9, all I had to do to create an Emergency Boot floppy was make sure I was booting from a device on the FastATA and that the CD file system was loaded.  I inserted the OS3.9 CD, clicked to create the Disk and just followed the prompts - when it said if I wanted to copy my IDE adapter setting I just said "Yes".  I didn't have to manually fiddle with anything and the system just rebooted off the floppy with the CD inserted.

Title: Re: FastATA - EmergencyDisc-no CD detection on scsi.device 2
Post by: mfilos on September 07, 2008, 04:57:36 PM

Ok so you copied ATA3.driver into C: of the Emergency-Disk.
Have you started the driver in the Startup-Sequence of the disk? If you haven't there is no way of Setup to know the existence of the Secondary channel.

You must put:
C:ATA3.driver QUIET

as the first line in Emergency-Disk's Startup-Sequence
You might even have to run ATA3.prefs in order to save the new settings but I don't think it's essential.

I used Secondary channel for setting 3.9 and 4.0 but MorphOS for PUP isn't starting (due to FastATA compatibility issue) so I putted it back to Primary as slave and works in triple OS's.

Title: Re: FastATA - EmergencyDisc-no CD detection on scsi.device 2
Post by: kreciu on September 08, 2008, 04:04:12 PM

I made it :). Now I can boot "my system" from Emergency-Disc ;), with Voodoo and FastATA working from beginning :).

This what i like! No more "crappy" hand installation ;)

You, know what was problem... mountlist for CD-ROM  :-D  :roll: (CacheCDFS vs. AllegroCDFS) heh... :-D