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Sidecar crashes Amiga
« on: July 24, 2006, 01:33:14 PM »
I know I have a difficult question about the Amiga 1000 with A1060 Sidecar. I think this combination is not very widespread, but I hope someone has any indication where to begin troubleshooting.
When turning on the combination, the Amiga crashes with a guru after running the first command in the startup-sequence, which is BindDrivers.
It works fine without the Sidecar. Same thing happens with this Sidecar connected to a different A1000. :-?
 

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Re: Sidecar crashes Amiga
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2007, 10:38:58 AM »
I left the Sidecar for a while but decided to take it apart one more time.
First I did was make a new WB-disk from the installer-disk. No more binddrivers problems now. But the A1060 is not recognized: "Couldn't find Janus library".
What I did so far: Clean all connectors, reseat all chips. I also found that 3 pins of the sideconnector were not OK. I resoldered them so they make contact again.
Unfortunately these actions did not have any effect.
I am stuck now because I have not the slightest idea where to begin troubleshooting.
Any hints appreciated.
 

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Re: Sidecar crashes Amiga
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2011, 09:21:12 AM »
After all these years I picked up this problem again. Used a multimeter to check the 86pin CPU slot in the Sidecar. Bingo! Pins 80 and 82 pins didn't make contact. Managed to solder these and voilĂ , the Sidecar works again.
Next problem: the 30MB Western Digital Filecard doesn't work. At first the harddisk didn't spin. After fiddling with it it spins, but isn't recognized.