amiga 4000 help please

[Darrin]

actung_bab wrote:
thanks everone who replyed very helpfull as always
yes did check jumper is set to 1-2 meg
l have read where 8 meg thing was never but into use
l just try things to get it right thanks again
 :-D

Keep thrashing away at it.

I finally got my A4000 configured as I want it over the weekend so hopefully this will be the last time the case cover comes off (yeah right!).  :-)

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/darrin01311/A4000a.jpg

My last addition was to fit a CF card reader and a USB 2.0 port on the lower floppy drive bay cover for ease of access.

As is stands, the specs are as follows:
A4000 with GVP 68040 @ 40MHz
2MB Chip RAM, 16 MB Fast on mobo, 64MB on CPU card
CF card reader fitted to mobo IDE slot
Elbox IDE card in Zorro slot with:
     2 x 80GB hard drives (3 large SFS partitions each)
     CD ROM drive
Deneb USB 2.0 card in Zorro slot:
     internal port routed to front USB port
     Trendnet Ethernet dongle on rear for Internet
     USB DVD+-RW external drive
Cybervision 643D in Zorro slot:
     1024 x 768 display for Workbench & Internet
Internal Scan Doubler/Flicker Fixer
     Native & RTG displays routed to manual switch box
Emplant Apple Mac II card in Zorro slot:
     Haven't configured it yet, System 7 OS
PS2 mouse and keyboard adapters

I'm going to have to reinstall the OS as fitting the CD adapter has changed the main IDE adapter to SCSI2.device which causes the CD files system to throw a wobbler if the CF card is in place as it expects it to be SCSI.device.  With luck I can get AmiSys to work and give me a nice, pretty Workbench.
     

[Darrin]

stefcep2 wrote:
@ darrin

i was never able to get my A4000 to boot with a compact flash and a CDROM on the internal IDE.  It kept crashing.

I'd be interested in how you configured it to work.

It's because I only have the CF Reader on the internal IDE.  All other devices (the 2 hard drives and CD ROM) are on the Elbox Flyer4000 Zorro card.  Before I added the CF Reader I had terminated the internal IDE slot and didn't even use it (I went through hell when I first bought the A4000 trying to get a hard drive and CD ROM drive working together).  If you have the spare cash then I highly recommend the Elbox card.