ELBOX 4xEIDE'99 and OS 3.9

[-BobW-]

Has anyone been able to get OS 3.9 and an Elbox 4xEIDE'99 to work together?

I installed OS 3.0 on a fresh drive.  I then installed the EIDE drivers.  Everything worked great.  I was able to access my OS 3.9 CD and start the install.

After OS 3.9 installed I lost the CD-Rom drive.  I followed through the readme and made some changes to the startup-sequence but still no luck.  

I don't think the drivers are OS 3.9 aware.  The readme only speaks of 3.5.  I tried to use the IDEFIX that came with 3.9 but it does not seem to work with the 4xEIDE'99.

Any ideas?

[-BobW-]

Looks like we have a little confusion here.  I am just using the 4XEIDE'99 Adapter which is a 4 way buffered interface.  This is NOT the Elbox Powerflyer IDE controller.

The Hard drive is a 2.5 inch drive with the 44 pin connecter.  The CD-ROM is a standard 40 pin IDE.  As a result they are both on different cables.

The setup worked great under OS 3.0 but the OS 3.9 Recovery disk I created did not work so I stupidly booted OS 3.0 from the harddrive and ran the OS 3.9 install.

I ran the 4xEIDE Prefs and I can see the drives but I don't get any Icons.

I have gone through the readme and everything including the setpatch line looks good in my startup script.

I registered with Elbox and as a result got a VERY prompt response.  Unfortunately it didn't help so I'll have to follow up with them when I get home tonight.

I've been away from the amiga for several years so I'm sure there is something simple I am missing here.

[-BobW-]

Welp, I got it to work. I think the problem was the fact that I was using CTRL-A-A to restart the computer.  I turned it off and let it rest for the night and now it works!

On top of that I was able to install AWEB and genesis so I'm writing this reply from my A1200.  

Thanks for all of the replies!!!