Amiga 4000T boot problem

[Jeff]

My A4000T also does this. One interesting note; The person I purchased the machine from (complete less case) had A4000D 40.68 roms installed which seems to fix all of the IDE problems.  The IDE works perfectly and there isn't any pause at all at boot up.  This obviously disables the onboard SCSI.

I put back the 40.70 roms and chose to boot from SCSI leaving only an IDE cdr drive connected. Like you said the bootable partition and 40.70 roms on the A4000T is the troubled combination.

Further the machine gets REALLY strange if you use a rev 3.0 A3640, as this also causes problems with the onboard SCSI :-).  I have also tried a CS MK III 060 with the same results.

Jeff

[Jeff]

The CS MK III 060 SCSI works beautifully on mine and is very fast, so no worries there I think. If you want the onboard IDE and don't need the SCSI (IE CS Card) just use 40.68 roms. This seems to work a treat.

This was my first A4000T and I purchased it in pieces (No Case).  This was driving me NUTS for a little while until I figured out some of the quirks:-D.

Keep Posted if you get any further.  One more thing I discovered on mine, if you want to use a Toaster in the top video slot you can use (2)x 8 meg SIMMS in slots 1 and 3 for the onboard 16 meg instead of (4) x 4 meg simms without any problems.

Jeff