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Title: A590 error message
Post by: Amiga1.3 on June 15, 2010, 04:52:46 PM

Hello i have just joined this forum and i have a question to ask i have just got a A590 HD and i was using the setup disk on my old trust A500 and every time i go to prep the hard drive it comes up with error -1 what does that mean ? any ideas

Title: Re: A590 trying to set up after 10 years
Post by: Amiga1.3 on June 16, 2010, 04:54:29 PM

Hi again i have tryed using HD toolbox this time i can select the hard drive type WD93028 1.0 and then i save changes to drive and it came up with Error -1 on write! and also when i use low-level format the hd starts up for a few seconds and the just sits there and ticks away like a floppy drive and one more thing when i verify data on drive it says non-extended error is 0x10.
 
I hope someone knows what this means and can help its got me stuffed.

Title: Re: A590 trying to set up after 10 years
Post by: rockape on June 16, 2010, 05:16:04 PM

Quote from: Amiga1.3;564892

Hi again i have tryed using HD toolbox this time i can select the hard drive type WD93028 1.0 and then i save changes to drive and it saids Error -1 on write!

Hi,

See  http://www.bboah.com/index.php?sid=82524&lang=en&action=artikel&cat=71&id=3260&artlang=en

Quote

"The A590 is a hard drive controller which connects to the side expansion slot of the A500. It provides both a SCSI controller, and an XT controller. An XT Controller is the very old 8bit IDE standard (not to be confused with ST506). Whilst it uses the same 40pin IDE cable that modern IDE controllers use, you cannot use modern IDE drives with the XT-Controller because they are 16bit. You must use XT hard drives. These were only ever made up to about 80MB in size. There are several versions of the ROMs for the A590, Version 6 ROMs only allow hard drives up to 512MB in capacity. Version 6.6 and 7.0 ROMs have been reported to work successfully with drive sizes up to 9GB but you will need at least OS3.5 to use drives over 4GB."

Also there are jumper settings you may need to check as well.

Regards, Michael

aka rockape

Title: Re: A590 error message
Post by: Amiga1.3 on June 16, 2010, 07:18:35 PM

Thanks very much for the link it is very helpful i will have another go at the hard drive tomorrow :hammer:

Title: Re: A590 error message
Post by: Zac67 on June 17, 2010, 09:45:55 AM

Did you enter the correct geometry data for the 93028?

Anyway, that XT drive is a pain. Better get a next-to-free small SCSI HDD and you'll see that the A590 can be MUCH faster. ;)

Title: Re: A590 error message
Post by: Amiga1.3 on June 17, 2010, 06:40:00 PM

yea i must admit it is a pain so far i may go the scsi to ide to compact fash setup or just the scsi HD setup