A500 ide68k SD card checksum error(s) ?

[paul1981]

I have finally managed to install ide68k into my A500. From the hw perspective everything seems to be working ok. Amiga sees DH0 and DH1 partitions. On DH0 boot priority is 0, max transfer rate is set to 0x001FE00, I can (quick)format both of the partitions but ! When I try to install WB 3.1 from a floppy disk, I get a ton of: AmigaOS (which is the name of my boot partition) has a checksum error on disk block .... the number changes.
 
I'm using a 2 GB SD card along with SD2IDE adapter which is partitioned with 2 partitions:
 
1. 340 MB boot partition
2. 1.4 GB storage partition
 
using FFS file system.
 
I'm not sure what am I doing wrong.
Please advise.
Thanks.

Have you tried doing a full format on DH0? It won't take long, it's only 340MB. If it does a full format successfully then there's nothing wrong with DH0.
Try entering 0x1FE00 as the maxtransfer instead (on both partitions remember). Even though it's the same value it might not be reading the leading zero's correctly.

[paul1981]

Ha ! Haha !
 
I didi it ! I have actually accomplished it !
1 MB ChipRAM Hack completed - sucessfully !
 
Thanks to Oldsmobile Mike for detailed, step by step instructions.
 
Last step: Whdloaod registration.

How did you get it working? What did you do wrong?

Anyway... glad it's all working for you.

[paul1981]

To tell you the truth Paul, I don't know. The Amiga was flashing me, sometimes with a power led and sometimes with a capslock led. When I saw there was no image on the screen I went back to my soldering iron to try and correct whatever i messed up and never connected it back to my 1084. Every time i soldered some more i just connected the keyboard and watched for those flashes. When i was ready to give up, i gave it one more try, this time with monitor connected to it. Still flashed at me, 5 short, 1 long and then a reboot. Then i set down, lit a cigarette and then a funny thing happened. I got a guru message. An actuall image on the screen ! Telling me to press the left mouse btt to reboot. After that it booted to wb. That was yesterday when i reverted everything back from an unsucessful hack. Today, i did the hack once more and everything went well.

At some point I'll be doing this modification myself, so I'll be extra careful. It's nice to know though that if I do run into trouble then all I have to do is take up smoking! :cool:
BTW, what brand of cigarettes would I need to buy just in case?