Slow to Boot

[save2600]

Tell tale sign what you installed on the IDE bus was not fully compatible or perhaps you accidentally missed by a couple of pins (not tough to do). Might have fried something on the Miggy or that SD doo-dad.

About slow load times, you sure you don't have some other patch going on either? Like IDEFix or some PCMCIA patch messing with the seek time?

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Is that IDE<>SD adapter SATA or PATA? From my understanding, Amiga's require PATA, which is less common. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable can explain the who's and why's in detail, but generally speaking:

PATA - Amiga, PeeCee's of yore and Efika
SATA - PeeCee

...and yeah, that PCMCIA RAM is 16-bit. That *IS* going to slow down your 32-bit system.

[save2600]

Yep, while the auction doesn't state SATA specifically, it does mention that it's compatible with the 'standard' IDE format - which currently is SATA naturally.

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PATA and SATA use completely different connectors. It is impossible to plug one into the other. If it has 40 or 44 pins, it is PATA.

? Then what the heck am I thinking of? I recently bought two 2.5" laptop drives. One worked in the Efika - one did not. The one that worked, I swear... was a PATA drive. The SATA wouldn't even spin up - both had the same 44-pin connector. And they were clearly labeled as PATA and the other SATA.

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So what do your think of MorphOS and your Efika anyhow?

Got rid of it within a month    lol   Efika is seriously underpowered and its 80MB of useable RAM just wasn't enough. Good stepping stone though and makes one thirst for something much more powerful, such as the MacMini G4, which I bought also, but almost got scammed by the seller recently. Never received the unit and the guy didn't want to refund my money. PayPal had to get involved and then weeks later, I finally got my money back.