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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Snoozy on February 07, 2012, 10:53:55 AM
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I have a 4gb transcend CF which serves as a hd in one of my 1200's. It has classic wb 3.1 installed and has the system/wb partition as the primary bootable partition.
On cold switch on it shows the purple wb screen, but if i then do a warm reset it then boots of the cf hd.
The 1200 is a 2b mobo wih Blizzad 1220 and 8mb ram and 3.0 roms.
Could this be a problem of 3.0 rom and 3.1 classic wb?
Is there a way around this to ensure wb boots from the cf hd from cold start?
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Hi Snoozy,
Unfortunately this ia common problem with CF cards and especially with accelerators. If you remove your Blizzard 1220 it'll probably boot up on a cold boot. I have a Transcend 16GB 133x CF card that shows this exact problem. If I remove my ACA1230 it boots off it fine on a cold boot.
I then bought two 8GB 133x Transcend CF cards and they both work perfectly with the ACA1230, cold and warm boot. I haven't been able to find a solution to the 16GB card, it seems that the boot sequence happens a lot faster with the accelerator plugged in and some CF cards don't initialise in time when the Amiga boots off the HDD.
Cheers
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Ah ok thanks orcish75 so it seems to be a feature of this 1200 set-up. It doesn't really bother me too much but i wondered if i had one of my settings/parameters slightly off.
Maybe this is a problem of transcend cf's and sandisk would be a better option in the future? (or better still use a proper hd!)
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It seems to be a hit and miss affair with CF cards. I've read in forums that some people with Sandisk cards have the same problem. It may also be the CF adapter/CF card combination. Your CF card may work in a different CF IDE adapter. I have ordered a different CF adapter from my current one, hopefully it'll arrive in a week or two and I'll let you know if my 16GB CF card boots in that.
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I have a 4gb transcend CF which serves as a hd in one of my 1200's. It has classic wb 3.1 installed and has the system/wb partition as the primary bootable partition.
On cold switch on it shows the purple wb screen, but if i then do a warm reset it then boots of the cf hd.
The 1200 is a 2b mobo wih Blizzad 1220 and 8mb ram and 3.0 roms.
Could this be a problem of 3.0 rom and 3.1 classic wb?
Is there a way around this to ensure wb boots from the cf hd from cold start?
I have encountered this with a number of different brand cards. I am not sure what causes it but i think in some cases the cards try to post too fast and just miss the boat.. Again its just a guess.
mech
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It's the case with some CF cards, hit & miss. So you just have to try different cards that are able to catch up with the boot process. I had a Kingston 4GB card that did the same, but an older & "slower" Kingston 2GB worked just fine.
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Since you're using Kickstart 3.0, and I'm assuming you've got the card plugged into the 2.5 inch IDE controller port internally, it may be a kickstart problem. I know that Kickstart 3.1 allows a LOT more time for hard drives to spin-up so if you want to try that solution, it might work. I think with Kickstart 3.1 you have to install a patch in the startup-sequence for the boot sequence to work correctly.
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Since you're using Kickstart 3.0, and I'm assuming you've got the card plugged into the 2.5 inch IDE controller port internally, it may be a kickstart problem. I know that Kickstart 3.1 allows a LOT more time for hard drives to spin-up so if you want to try that solution, it might work. I think with Kickstart 3.1 you have to install a patch in the startup-sequence for the boot sequence to work correctly.
Thanks that would make sense and may account why some people have probs and others don't.
I can't change over to 3.1 roms in this 1200 as i have a blizzard 1220 with add4 (4+4 ram) so i would lose my pcmcia port if i went to 3.1 roms, unless i downgraded my blizzard to just 4mb ram.
So I'm better off with 3.0 rom for the moment i think and just soft resetting.
At least I wasn't the only one with this problem :)
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Is this related to the same issue that affects certain IDE hard drives on the internal controller where the solution was to simply cut line one on the IDE cable?
I used to have a hard drive that did this. Switch on and the A1200 booted to "insert disk", keyboard reset and the hard drive would boot. After cutting line one it would boot from the hard drive each time.
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It's the case with some CF cards, hit & miss. So you just have to try different cards that are able to catch up with the boot process. I had a Kingston 4GB card that did the same, but an older & "slower" Kingston 2GB worked just fine.
I never had the problem if I used the A1200's IDE directly connected to the CF adapter.
Whenever I used the CF with elbox 4xIDE or FastATA MK IV I had the cold boot issue.
The problem eventually drove me crazy so I bought a 4GB Transcend Disk On Module...
Is this related to the same issue that affects certain IDE hard drives on the internal controller where the solution was to simply cut line one on the IDE cable?
I used to have a hard drive that did this. Switch on and the A1200 booted to "insert disk", keyboard reset and the hard drive would boot. After cutting line one it would boot from the hard drive each time.
In my case I never got the purple insert disk screen. It would just sit there blank forever..