I'm setting up a 4g CF drive + CD slim drive in my 1200. No probs getting CF formatted and booting when it's the only thing connected to the IDE cable - and gees it's fast! But, as soon as I connect the CD drive, neither the CF or CD drive is recognised. I've tried connecting each device on different fittings on the cable. The only jumper to change master/slave settings is on the CF card - which I've tried all combinations of - master/slave, slave/master, and no jumper at all. There is no master/slave jumper that I can see on the CD drive, and I think that's where the problem lies - not being able to set them means the master/slave settings are clashing. Has anyone come across this and knows how to sort it out? Can I just cut a particular wire on the cable, or bridge some pins or similar?
Hi,
After playing with my A1200 for the past 6 months trying to get a CF drive and a CDROM going, I found out that I had to buy a buffered cable at AmigaKit, not only did I have to buy a buffered 4 way ide cable but I had to use IDEfix 97, I had to put the CF on the primary ide side, and the CDROM on the secondary side to get it to work on a regular 68K CPU. Now comes the fun part, when I initiated my PPC CPU, I had to get rid of the CD drive, use a regular ide hard drive as the master, and the CDROM as the slave. Now why did it take me 6 months to figure this out.
1 My first power supply went bad, replaced the power supply got rid of intermittent power problems.
2. Found that when my power supply went bad, it burned a wire in my ide cable, the burned out spot was the size of a pencil point.
3. When I replaced the cable I used a CS select cable, which has a hole punched in at one selected end.
These problems were enough to cause a crazy man to go insane. So now you see why I am so looney.
Anyway take it from me, CF drives are great if used by themselves. My CF drive has a master and slave on it, for what I don't know, because I have tried over 1000 different things to get it to work, and believe me I couldn't get it to work with either a CF drive, a regular ide hard drive, or a CD Rom.
Have fun, and if you figure it out give me a yell. Just letting you know that I played with this project for 6 months, now it is set up with a 4 way ide buffered, with a regular hard drive as master, a CDROM as slave and running a Blizzard PPC with OS 4.1 (Don't waste your money OS 4.1 running on a 250 mhz drive is slower than a 68000 chip, I use OS 4.1 only to say I have it, got to get something back for my $149.)
smerf
