Thanks Shelly.
Don’t forget that some people’s experiences can differ from yours. Have owned a few of the Elbox 4-way adapters and never did I get a device to boot from the slave setting. It was always on the primary master. This was using both IDEFIX’97 and AtapiMagic.
On the A4000 I have managed to get ATAPI/IDE Zip drives to boot in the slave setting. But never on a A1200. Perhaps this maybe down to revision of the board.
IDEFIX sucks and besides newer OS doesn't need it, as you have updated scsi and filesystem, so atapi is majik is enough to get extra channels seen.
On side note, please chill out on the Shelly business. Me and Kolla might have disagreements, but I would not go around calling him things. Its not the way things are done in civilized society.
There's one thing about this.
The "original" A1200 kickstarts (3.0 and 3.1) tend to not wait long enough for devices to spin up and also spin them down on every reset. The drives are spun up one after the other starting with unit 0, then unit 1 etc, so in case of IDE, master first, then slave (and I'm sure a zip drive needs a bit more time than a CF card). The solution is to either cut pin 1 so that they don't spin down on reset and just accept that you need to ctrl-a-a on power up, or use a later kickstart that waits longer (3.2 waits very long).
A600 kickstarts typically don't have this problem, as that kickstart is also for A500 where slow SCSI drives were commonplace.
3.0 Maybe, but 3.1 waits about 25 to 30 seconds for drive.
