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Buddha. How To???!??
« on: March 06, 2009, 09:48:21 AM »
OK, So I ordered a Buddha for my Amiga2000; but the instructions are scant...at best and I can't find any FAQ's on the web.

I've plugged in the Buddha, attached a 40pin CF-IDE adapter and put on a 2GB CF card.

My Buddha can't see it; at least not using HDToolbox that is. Strangely enough when the bus is scanning for devices using the HDToolBox, the led on the CF adapter goes mad; indicating that it can be 'seen' and 'spoken' too.

But alas I dont get the option to partition up the CF card, and therefore dont get the option to install WB.

The A2K has 4MB RAM, 1MB Chip, it's a REV6.2 running ROM3.1.

Any help appreciated.
 

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Re: Buddha. How To???!??
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2009, 10:49:42 AM »
Nah only got the one, another is on the way from Hong Kong, quite possibly on a slow boat...
 

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Re: Buddha. How To???!??
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2009, 10:52:26 AM »
WB3.1, I have WB3.5 on CD, but need to get the Buddha working to take advantage of that.
 

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Re: Buddha. How To???!??
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2009, 03:16:33 AM »
Well I've just gone out and bought a 160GB PATA HDD; dropped it in and connected up first time. And given the MASSIVE price difference between CF and an IDE drive, based upon storage, I reckon I've made the right decision.

8GB CF = 160GB IDE; with 20 bucks spare :)
 

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Re: Buddha. How To???!??
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2009, 11:53:23 PM »
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Iggy_Drougge wrote:

Funny, I'm usually looking for as small cards as possible for my "spare" Amigas. I don't need more than a hundred megabytes on my A600, and filling a 160 GB drive on any 68k Amiga is going to be a challenge.


Well the plan is that it doesn't stay a base model 68k Amiga...  :-)

I partitioned the HD up to as close to 4GB as I could, but right at the very end of a long format operation. It stopped and said the HDD was not a DOS Disk; and now the drive is stuck "validating". Which is annoying.

Any suggestions on 'validating' the hdd? I dont want to repartition and format it again; that took AGES!
 

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Re: Buddha. How To???!??
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2009, 02:20:48 AM »
Oh, the partition was instant. The format was several hours.

I'll take your advice and go a 1GB parition for booting; and slice the rest up for storage of apps and games.

What's giving me trouble is getting WB3.1 installed on the HDD; then installing the Buddha drives for the CD ROM; which will then let me get WB3.5 installed.

First hurdle is the dodgy partition.
 

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Re: Buddha. How To???!??
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2009, 01:30:27 PM »
OK now I'm mad as hell; after all manner of grief, including the corruption of the CF card that runs my A1200; I've got the HDD formatted and installed WB3.1.

Oh and for giggles my WB3.1 Install disk died...not fun.

So anyways , several hours later i get around to installing the Buddha software and it helpfully, NOT!!!!!, checks the size of my HDD before installing. And predictably uses a 4bit datatype to hold the int size of the HDD. So it then says you have -9999999999999 gazillion bytes left on your HDD, and I couldnt possibly install in that space.. XXX#$#$#####!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Feel the anger!!!!!!!

So what do i do now?!? The alcohol hasnt helped.

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For some reason I feel compelled to install the Buddha software, help me Amigan's!
 

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Re: Buddha. How To???!??
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2009, 09:19:03 AM »
We’re all up and running, OS3.1 on the new HDD plus a functional CDROM. The trick was the small DH0, which I set at 400MB; and a 2GB data partition.

Dont quite know what I’ll do with the remaining 157GB :-D

I guess I’ll find a use with the 68040 accelerator that I won on eBay today.

Thanks for all your help. I'm sure I'll need more when the accelerator arrives  :-)