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Slow to Boot
« on: May 18, 2010, 09:16:53 PM »
I was messing around with my 1200, and put in my 2Mb PCMCIA memory card to see if I could get Giana Sisters to load off the Hard Drive.

Well needless to say it didn't, so I turned off my system and removed the card.

After this, every time I booted up, it would not, it would go through the motions, all the lights would dance, but it would sit eternally at a black screen.

I then removed the CF to IDE interface and noticed that it would eventually display a picture, but that it took FOREVER to get to the INSERT FLOPPY screen.

I then left the Amiga on the insert floppy screen and put my CF card in my PC to test with WinUAE.

Low and behold WinUAE froze at a black screen too when booting off the CF, so I booted off floppy, backed up the files off the CF into a HDF image, then reformatted the card and re-installed Work Bench.

All was fine until I decided to test out this new SD to IDE adapter that I received in the mail. When I booted up with that attached my screen jumped around like crazy, I saw diagonal lines upon a black back ground, you name it. So I quickly took out the adapter to find...

...my system now takes forever to get to the insert floppy screen once more.

The only change I have made to my system before all this began was install Kickstart 3.1 roms, though it was acting fine until I put that PCMCIA memory card in there.
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Re: Slow to Boot
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2010, 09:25:52 PM »
Bummer!

Though I wonder why my CF card got corrupted.
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Re: Slow to Boot
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2010, 09:28:29 PM »
@save2600: No patches that I'm aware of. I don't even know what those are. :)

BTW, this is the SDtoIDE adapter that I was using.
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Re: Slow to Boot
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2010, 10:40:27 PM »
And now my Amiga is booting up fast again with the CFtoIDE adapter.

Needless to say I'm not putting that PCMCIA card nor the SDtoIDE adapter in my Amiga ever again!!!

Besides my 40Mhz 030 arrived today from AmigaKit. I've got 16Mb or Fast RAM so I'm good. Too bad it's to slow to run OS 3.9 as smooth as it does OS 3.1
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Re: Slow to Boot
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2010, 10:58:53 PM »
I knew the PCMCIA would slow down my performance, I just wanted the extra RAM for a moment. Anyhow, the system began to boot slow AFTER it was removed. Then as fate would have it, it worked it self out.

As for the SD adapter, I dunno. Here is the auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300425342905&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Gonna test it on my PC to make sure it ain't dead.

As for the CF adapters I've used, I've never had an issue with any of them, except that some made the HD light flash when being read and others didn't.
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Re: Slow to Boot
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2010, 12:05:09 AM »
So what do your think of MorphOS and your Efika anyhow?
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Re: Slow to Boot
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2010, 12:57:31 AM »
I had a feeling the Efika would be somewhat of a let down.

I'm eager to get my hands on a Mac Mini as well!
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