CFIDE68K v. 402 microdrives not recognized

[curtis]

I've had the CFIDE68K v. 402 for a while now and am finally getting around to setting it up in a rev 6A A500 motherboard.

Configuration is as follows:
A500 rev. 6A
CFIDE68K v. 4.02
MegaChip 2000
Startech IDE to CF adapter.
37.350 ROM
WB 2.1 Install disk

Problem is it doesn't recognize the 1GB IBM microdrive.

I go through HDSetup and let it partition the drive but when I'm expecting it to tell me the drive has been partitioned and reboot, there's nothing there!

I rebooted and then go to HDToolbox hoping the microdrive will be found and I get "Driver not installed".

Also tried a Sandisk 64Mb CF card and symptoms are the same with HDSetup, but when I go to HDToolbox, I get a "unrecognized" drive.

Curious thing is I tried a 350Mb 3.5" hard drive just to check out the circuitry and it partitioned and formatted with no problem.

Any suggestions?

Would a TrueIDE adapter help out here?

Thanks,

Curtis

[curtis]

I've been told the 37.350 would work just fine in a rev 6a motherboard and the fact that the real IDE drive seems to confirm this.

Also, all the documentation of the CFIDE68K says it SHOULD work!

Still a ponderment.

I'm going to pick up a 3.1 ROM and see if that resolves the issue.

HOWEVER, if anyone else has any suggestions, I'm all ears!

Curtis

[curtis]

Guess we'll put this thread on hold until the ROM comes in!

Do appreciate the suggestions all around and will let y'all know how things work out.

I think 3.1 is a good plan. The scsi.device in 2.x is buggy, and it seems to be fairly random what works with it.

If you have a 3.1 Install disk, try using the HDToolbox from that first.