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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: icbrkr on March 30, 2009, 01:15:14 PM

Title: 4000T and bootable IDE...
Post by: icbrkr on March 30, 2009, 01:15:14 PM

My 4000T's boot SCSI drive appears to be giving up the ghost finally (unsurprising, it's a 1GB drive that's at least 13 years old) and instead of going the SCSI route, I was going to slap in an IDE drive instead.   The last time I tried this, for the life of me, I couldn't get it to boot off of IDE - is there something special with the way the 4000T works with the IDE controller?  

Title: Re: 4000T and bootable IDE...
Post by: terminator4 on March 30, 2009, 09:03:50 PM

isn't SCSI 2 faster on the Amiga 4000T than IDE?  Why would you go IDE route.

Title: Re: 4000T and bootable IDE...
Post by: Zac67 on March 30, 2009, 09:45:21 PM

got a couple of 18 gig SCA drives coming up soon - hang on

Title: Re: 4000T and bootable IDE...
Post by: Jose on March 30, 2009, 09:47:54 PM

IIRC the IDE port of the A4000T had some compatibility issues, I had the same problem, which I solved intalling IDEFix IIRC.
I went the SCSI->IDE adapter (SCSI->SATA adapters are now available too) route, much faster, and you can allways slap another drive later on and keep the adapter.

Title: Re: 4000T and bootable IDE...
Post by: icbrkr on March 31, 2009, 12:50:13 AM

I might look into the SCSI->SATA adapater since I have so many extra SATA drives lying around.

I'm sure SCSI is faster normally, but I have a stack of IDE drives which I'd rather use if possible.

Title: Re: 4000T and bootable IDE...
Post by: Tension on March 31, 2009, 02:21:23 AM

SCSI drives are just too dear.  Thus, I have a Dell PowerEdge 2500 just sitting rather uselessly with only 9 Gigs in it`s SCSI RAID array.