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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: kreciu on August 19, 2016, 03:37:49 AM
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It is me any my beloved FastATA 1200 Mk-II. I just got nice, brand new IDE cable (80 wires) and... my hard drive is NOT detected. When I switch to old 40 wires cable, Amiga boots from hard drive without problems...
Elbox writes that their FastATA 1200 Mk-V works with 80 wire IDE cables. Can tell someone tell me if I can use it with Mk-II??
Is there any way to make it work?
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The master drive is supposed to be connected to the furthest connector from the motherboard connector although this may only apply when using cable select. I know I had grief with the MK-III but it's so long ago that I don't remember if I resolved the problems or went back my old flat 40's.
You could try cable select. Here's the relevant extract from the Wiki.
"Starting with the 80-wire cable defined for use in ATAPI5/UDMA4, the master device goes at the end of the 18-inch (460 mm) cable the black connector and the slave device goes on the middle connector the gray one and the blue connector goes onto the motherboard. So, if there is only one (master) device on the cable, there is no cable stub to cause reflections. Also, cable select is now implemented in the slave device connector, usually simply by omitting the contact from the connector body."
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My Mk. III came with a yellow 80-pin 3.5" cable for master/slave, but I never even tried it as I use mine with a single 2.5" drive.