towering an a4KD- mouse and joystick placement

[patrik]

@Will-i-am:

Why not just buy a new short CD-ROM drive like the Lite-On 529S which works fine in the A4000D and is just 17cm deep, leaving 4.5cm of clearance between it and the powersupply. This is a very easy solution to your problem and it shouldnt set you back more than somewhere between $15 to $20.

As another plus you will also be able to keep the A4000D in its original Amiga-looking case .


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Will-i-am:

Have you tried the exact same setup that works in your A4000T (the same harddrive, short CD-ROM and maybe even IDE-cable)? This as some IDE-harddrives, very common amongst older ones can be a real arse if they have to share the IDE-cable with another device, making one of the devices just disappear.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Will-i-am:

Is the short CD-ROM the only unit on the IDE-cable in the A4000D?

Is the short CD-ROM jumpered as master or slave?

When it doesnt even want to boot from a floppy, does the harddrive-light on the A4000D stay lit forever?


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Will-i-am:

Have you tried this?
1. Remove the IDE-harddrive completely from the A4000D.
2. Jumper the short CD-ROM as master.
3. Connect one of the outer end connectors of the IDE-cable to the A4000D IDE-connector.
4. Connect the other outer end connector of the IDE-cable to the short CD-ROM.

Then see if it boots from a Workbench-floppy.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Will-i-am:

The freaky thing is that the IDE-interface hardware should be equal in the A4000D and A4000T. And yeah - it shouldn't be rocket-science, rather more or less plug and play.

Btw, do you have kickstart 3.1 in both machines (trying to figure out something that is different between them).


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Will-i-am:

The cpu-card should not make a difference. If I were you I would just let the CyberStormPPC stay put, dont touch it and hope that it lives as long as possible as they tend to be rather fragile.

When jumpering the harddrive, did you jumper as desribed here, in other words placed two jumpers on the two pin-pairs closest to the IDE-connector?


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Will-i-am:

If you have a 060 on that CSPPC of yours, the reason why you are having all sorts of lockups might be a result of missing the 68060.library.

You can download the latest 68060 software from Phase5 here.

If you are running OS3.1 you install it by first doing this:
1. Rename your original LIBS:68040.library to LIBS:68040old.library

And then from the Libs drawer in the 68060-191099.lha archive doing this:
2. Copy 68040dummy.library to LIBS:68040.library
3. Copy 68040.library to LIBS:68040new.library
4. Copy 68060.library to LIBS:


If you are running OS3.9 you install it by just copying 68040.library and 68060.library from the Libs drawer in the 68060-191099.lha archive to LIBS:

Reboot after copying the libraries and the install is completed.


The PPC software you should use is WarpUP:
WarpUP 4.0
WarpUP 5.1 Update

Just install WarpUP 4.0 first, reboot and then install the WarpUP 5.1 update.


Merry christmas!


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Framiga:

The WarpUP 5.1 Update actually states that it requires WarpOS 4.0 in the readme.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Will-i-am:

Did the new 68060-libraries make any difference?


/Patrik