Nei Fastata 4000 mkiv and mediator not working

[Shamron]

Hi everyone.

I just got my Fastata 4000 and inserted it into my miggy tonight. It only resulted in a blinking powerled and nothing else.

I tried the 3 different available zorro slots, but to no avail.

I then tried to move the HD from the onboard IDE to the Fastata in case they don't operate together, but no. Only powerled blinking.

Anything to do with the mediator jumper settings?

My setup is mediator with Radeon 9200, sb128,Rtl8139, spider, cyberstorm 060

[Shamron]

Hi and thanks for the reply.

I have tried it with nothing connected to the Fastata (does not help)  I tried to remove spider, nic, soundcard, did not help. Tried to remove the window jumper on the mediator and it allowed me to boot from my emergency disk, but graphics were just random colored pixels.

I got the mediator PCI 4000 Rev 1.0.

The system have worked flawlessly with daily use with everything but the Fastata for months. And with the radeon for a week.

Buster 11
2mb chip on most, 128 on the cyberstorm. Not overclocked

[Shamron]

I got 4 pci slots. From bottom I got sb128, Rtl8139, spider, radeon. I also got 3 zorro slots, I only got one item in those, the Fastata. I tried it in all slots, same results.

Right now i have removed the winsize Jun er an are able to boot into 3.1,but no matter what I do, I can't get the machine to recognize the normal SATA harddrive I use. Trying fresh reinstall atm.

Edit: pressing the socket chips, repeating my cpu card and checking all cables, connections was the first thing I tried, but thanks Dan. ☺

[Shamron]

Ok, just asking.

If i am to reinstall EVERYTHING, should I install os3.9,then bb1-4then picaso96,then mediator files or what order would you guys install it in? And would you skip bb3 and 4 or not?

Also, why can't I reach my old HD, and if I boot from my old, varying HD or emergency disk, why do my graphics get messed up and amiga locks up.

Edit: also, SHOULD I able to connect my old system er vi as Fastata master and boot from it?

Also, what's the proper jumper settings on the mediator for my setup? With master and winsize closed and swap config open, I don't even get to early boot menu before powerled start flashing...

[Shamron]

I opened the swap config jumper and everything worked. I am using latest Setpatch with graphics.library patch, newest intuition.library, exec.library and custom rom made with Remus. Everything have worked nicely until the Fastata got inserted, but now I have to open the swap config jumper to make it work. I managed to copy my system to a compactflash so i am happy. Is it normal to have to actually USE the miggy in this state though?

[Shamron]

After getting it up and running yesterday and enjoying my amiga for 6 hours, copying my system partition to both a compactflash card and a Samsung 830 120GB ssd disk, my Amiga decided to not boot anymore. Not from the ssd, not from the cf and not from the original, untouched harddrive either.

After tons of googling, I found a post where someone said "you can forget using your ssd as primary master and bootdisk"

I guess it needs either a master or a slave as company?

None of the adapters that came with the Fastata actually reacted to the master/slave jumper. The pata-sata one didn't work at all. 😕

I'm still happy though. ☺

[Shamron]

After reinstalled half-way today, the cf and the ssd reappeared. So I took a backup of the clean installed on, and just copied the contents of the cf to a 2,5" 320GB Seagate disk.

Everything works now.

Thanks to everyone that have helped. None mentioned, none forgotten. ☺

Ben. -