Cant get IDE CF to work on A1200

[F0LLETT]

I connect a 44 to 40 pin adapter to the 1200 motherboard and connect an IDE CF adapter and the 1200 boots but the mouse cursor wont move. The mouse buttons work but not the cursor.

I tried a different IDE to CF adapter and the 1200 wont boot.

Any ideas how to get hard drive working?

Thanks

Does the Amiga work fine without HD connected? I mean mouse etc etc.

[F0LLETT]

WB is 3.1, KS is 3.0 and I took the CF to IDE adapter and card from my working Amiga 4000 which has WB 3.1 installed

Has to be something on HDD then. What about booting from workbench floppy, does mouse move then?

[F0LLETT]

Yup, booting from WB 3.1 disk samething, mouse wont move. change to a different brand of CF/IDE (no CF cards installed) wont even boot.  So I am guessing my cables could be wrong or the CF/IDE adapter is not compatible.

Tried a 1.2GB IDE drive and same results

I am getting a BLizzard 1260 and will try scsi while I order parts from Amigakit

Thanks

I would agree, so using that adapter in your 4000, its fine?
As you have ruled out most things, definitely now points to maybe cable.