Buddha 2018

[Blatboy]

Oh boy.  I was going to post an unrelated question about something I was hoping to setup on my 3000 after I had the Buddha setup.  Hmmm.  Maybe I better be sure my new Buddha is working on my system first. Hahah.   Film at 11.  

[Blatboy]

Yep.  Y'all got me to take a look at my card.  No DOM boot love here.  I tried quite a few different configs... no cards... some cards all cards...

I had bought a 32GB DOM to use with it.
With the "boot" DOM in IDE 2, and the new 32GB in IDE 1...
I tried with jumper 2 on.  I tried with jumper 2 off and power connected to the new DOM...
no love

I'm also using 3.9 (3000 w/3640 super buster 11/7.1 Daughterboard)
Tried running the Flash update tool.  That didn't work either.  It said it found the card but... Error 20.  
will find that thread.
fun!

thanks for kickstarting (!) me into action here.

[Blatboy]

Hmmm.  I just checked out that thread.  My German is not so good.  Maybe I'll just send a support ticket hahah.  

[Blatboy]

Oh that would be mad convenient if they did. Those look great!

[Blatboy]

@blatboy

You're a professional musician with many big credits to your name including movies I see! And you're an Amigan - that's awesome!!!

Thanks man.  I'm a professional musician and a struggling engineer.    Soldering is knitting for nerds.

@lost_loven

Your purchases are making me feel better... optimism!   Jens will figure out the issues.  

[Blatboy]

Which sd2scsi adapter did you get?

This one?
https://amigakit.amiga.store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1264

Or this one?
http://amigakit.amiga.store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1314

Why does AmigaKit state that this 2nd card is Micro SD anyway? Anyone know if this 2nd card will fit in A590?

I can chime in on this as I own both.  I was only able to get the 1st one (rev 5) to work with my A3000.  While I could "see" the SD card hooked to a PC w/the rev 6, the drives I created always had problems.

If I created a drive on the scsi2sd v5 card when it was attached to the Amiga directly, it basically worked (though kinda wonky sometimes)

If you have a way of hooking scsi up directly to a PC, like a SCSI PCI card... (I do) then you can hook the SCSI2SD to your PC that way and access it via WinUAE.

Or at least this has been my experience.  I'm no master.

[Blatboy]

@lost_loven - Did you ever get the original DOM to boot?

[Blatboy]

Cool.  He said the same thing to me.  I'll hopefully have the time to clean mine today as well. You and I have a very similar setup...

(A3000D, 3640, scsi2sd, buster 11...)

[Blatboy]

Cool.  I cleaned mine today but had to split the studio.  I'll put it back together and test tomorrow.  I have my doubts (being that you and I are having similar issues) but I'll give 'er ye olde college try!

[Blatboy]

So, I cleaned my contacts on my daughterboard (and the connector on the motherboard to the daughter board and still no love from the DOM.

It doesn't even show up on the boot menu.

lost_loven - maybe you'll have different results -- If yours still doesn't see the DOM,  I can't help but think that our similar setups may be something to consider...

[Blatboy]

So confirmed. I pulled out my 3640 and the Dom is recognized and Boots up the Dom when selected an early start up. So just got to get the CPL updated to go along with the new Flash!.. Ugh

I had a feeling it was the 3640. I'm assuming you told Jens?  Seems the 3640 had gotten in the way of the RapidRoad USB as well in the past.  Had to go out of town last minute, so I'm really happy you were able to do that test.

[Blatboy]

I got mine.

Tried it out tonight.
No love.

I get:

Maxretries exceeded
buddha-cpld-upgrade failed return code 10

That's when I boot up with the supplied floppy or if I boot up from the HD and run the utility via a shell.  And yeah, I've attached the cable correctly and am holding the cable as instructed when the update program runs.

Oh man... haha.  I swear I'm the Charlie Brown of the Amiga community.  I feel like I'm always saying "Good grief.  I got a rock."

Anyhoo, maybe I should try this with the 3640 removed?  Red herring?  Wild Goose Chase?  

Curious how it goes for everyone else...

[Blatboy]

Against my better judgment, I took off my 3640 and now, of course, the A3000 doesn't boot at all.

The 3640 was installed when I got the computer, so I'm not hip to how it was installed.  Are there jumpers on the A3000 motherboard I need to adjust if I take off the 3640, or should it just work?

[Blatboy]

Thanks for the hot tip.  I have a couple more Amigas I can try it on.  Hopefully today if stars align.

[Blatboy]

I made the stars align

Tried on the 3000, the 1200, and the 500.  (I don't have the proper gender changer for it to work in the parallel port on the 1000)

The same thing happened (as before, see post 136 ) on each setup... I tried multiple times with each computer.

I'm pretty sure I'm getting a good connection with the cable.  One time on the 500, I held it more loosely, and I got a "bad connection" message, and the utility didn't even start.  That makes me think there isn't an issue with the cable or the connection I'm making normally.

I'll sit back and wait and see how it goes for others...