Which device for IDE?

[NovaCoder]

Call me stupid (others often do) but why does it appear that my CF IDE HD is using a SCSI driver?  Shouldn't it be using an IDE driver instead?  I've also noticed all this stuff in my startup sequence about running a SCSI update...can I get rid of all this?

I'm running OS3.9 BB2 on a 1200 with a Mk4 1230 and I'm trying to get my IDEExpress working properly.  If I installed the supplied software it just hangs on startup (you have to comment out the IDEFIX command from the startup sequence to get it working).  I'm not sure why it keeps hanging, maybe it's because I don't have a CDROM and it's trying to find one?

It's currently showing 3.3 mb/s in Sysinfo (Sandisk Ultra 2 4GB), does that mean it's configured properly?

Thanks :-D

[NovaCoder]

Retro_71 wrote:
Where in the Startup are you putting IDEFIX? it has to be at the begining.
Also how are you attacking your adapter? Make sure it doesn't move around i use a hot glue gun.

Here is an example of my startup_sequence

Are you running OS 3.9 and is that your complete sequence?

What's your setup and what kind of transfer speed are you getting?

Thanks

[NovaCoder]

Piru wrote:
@NovaCoder

but why does it appear that my CF IDE HD is using a SCSI driver?

Legacy driver naming reasons. It's really an IDE driver.

Thanks, I thought it would be something like that...very confusing  :-?

Are the 'real' SCSI drivers named in the same way?

[NovaCoder]

Cool.

So do I really need that 'update scsi driver' stuff in my startup sequence?  I think that IDEFIX contains it's own updated driver anyway so I don't want to override it.

[NovaCoder]

Lemmink wrote:
Those two do not like each other. Actually when Installing OS 3.5 / 3.9 you are asked if you do have a 4-way adapter. If you say yes the scsi.device patch is skiped from the ROM update.

That's interesting...maybe I should reinstall 3.9 (again!).

I tried again last night and even with the IDEFIX command at the top of the startup sequence + the 'skip scsi updates patch specified at the bottom'...it STILL hangs on startup.  Also the IDEFIX install disk hangs the system if I let it run through to the end  :-(

Out of interest, what command(s) in the startup sequence applies the OS 3.9 ROM patches?

[NovaCoder]

-D- wrote:

Just an FYI, but I was never able to use the idefix command with my Express adapter and CF cards (Sandisk cards here as well), though I do recall it working fine with my actual laptop drives. The system becomes unusable immediately after executing idefix.

Thanks for the info.  I was wondering if it was a CF related as most of the software on the driver floppy seems to be made for 'real' HD's.  Has anyone got it working with a CF and if so which CF did you use?

How about a CF friendly update Jens  :-D