A4000T ide issues

[danbeaver]

My A4000T lacks an "IDE Board," but you have set the jumper to master, tried a known working IDE cable with a known working IDE HDD (also set to master) and used HDToolbox or IDEFix's Find device tool to look for the drive?

Failing this (and the use of the proper KS ROM) I am not sure of any other easy ways to check to see if the port is working.  If it is not working, then you can bypass it with a Buddha IDE card (out of production) or an Elbox FastATA 4000 card until you can get it repaired.

[danbeaver]

Well...  Sounds busted.

I have gone from the built in (A4091) SCSI "Card" to a CF and from my CSPPC's SCSI-3 to a CF with good results (a Mech SCSI card reader works well here too), but I have my IDE port only connected to a CF card (in a slot cut in the back just above the PSU) to do boot partition back ups; these even boot into OS4.1.  

Now the Buddha will give a Z2 speed (3.5 MB/s) and a FastATA 4000 will give Z3 speed (9+ MB/s), so until Anthony Hoffman is back from the frozen south in September to repair your MB, you have $100 to $200 USD solutions.  A two bus solution to backups is quite fast, but I expect that is not your goal.  

There is an Australian SCSI to SD card solution on the web (for MAC's) that works for the Amiga [http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=SCSI2SD] [http://shop.codesrc.com/] for $125 AUD / $96.18 USD.

[danbeaver]

Sounds good to me (but you already repaired my main A4000T).

[danbeaver]

As an aside, would there be a SACC member able to follow up on Anthony's recommendations?