Odd issue with a Blizzard PPC board

[doctorq]

Hi,

I have a small problem, which someone outthere hopefully can solve for me.

The thing is, I have an A1200 in tower, with Mediator, FastATA MK-II controller and a Blizzard PPC board with 040@25 MHz and 603e@160 MHz with latest flash update.

Now to the first odd thing; if I run ShowboardsMUI, it says I have a BlizzardPPC with SCSI, which I know is not true. WhichAmiga says the same, but IIRC they use the same library for displaying installed devices? Not a big problem anyway...

One thing I am puzzled about though, is why I can't use BlizKick with the BPPCFix module. If I use it, then I just get this well-known requester saying that PPC.library was detected when trying to launch WarpOS. I have tried with BPPCFix, BPPCFix11, tried with and withour NOPUPREBOOT, but still no joy :-(

If I use the BPPCFix program, with BPPC INSTALL REBOOT >NIL: in the startup-sequence, I don't get this requester, and everything works just as one would expect it to work. Any ideas to this problem?

The last odd thing with this board is that ATA3Prefs says it's defective, some other program from ELBOX (I think it was called Check040) also claimed it to be defective, but WarpUP and Warp3D demos work, and Wipeout 2097 plays just nicely. Has anyone else experienced this issue with the FastATA utilities?

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@x56h34

Thanks for the input. The problem is though, that the same problem occurs for when using a Mediator ZIV + FastATA ZIV, but it doesn't hurt to check anyway.

If only I could get the BPPCFix in BlizKick working; I'm not that bothered about the other two issues, but 3 resets to load the OS is 2 too many :-)

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@Framiga

Definetaly originally without SCSI. If there was ever a SCSI controller on this board, I take a bow for the person who removed the SCSI parts, as no traces what so ever can been seen on the area where the SCSI chip would have been or where the 50 pin header would have been.

@x56h34

I tried all three BPPCFix modules included with BlizKick; BPPCFix, BPPCFix11 and BPPCFix040. Since the serial number is only HAB0017 (which also indicates the board was born with no SCSI controller) there might be a bug somewhere on the board, which prevents me from using BlizKick.

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@Framiga/x56h34

The flash from october 99 (19101999). I don't think I ever had the one from later on. Have a link anyone?

@Gavilan

I'm working on it, but are you sure you have the same problem as me?

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@Gavilan

Only one reboot is needed if it's installed correctly. Dunno how long my system takes to load on that setup, 8-10 seconds maybe. If you haven't edited the SCSI menu of your BPPC card then it will be a lot longer though.