Amiga A1060 Sidecar and XT-IDE/CF Card

[A4000Bear]

A bit late here, as I stumbled across this while trying to work on a closely related problem.

I have a Monotech XT-IDE Deluxe in my A1060 using XT-IDE and have managed to get it to partially work. I can get the Sidecar to recognise and use the CF card as expected for drive C:, however at this stage I can't create an Amiga partition for use on the Amiga side, as done previously with my old ISA SCSI card and hard drive.

You need to use a very old version of the Sidecar boot floppy, which can be found here https://vetusware.com/download/Commodore%20Amiga%20A1060%20XT%20Sidecar%20Workbench%20Bootdisk/?id=13850
The manual that comes with the sidecar is unclear on the correct setting for the address sector, which needs to be set to E0000-EFFFF. (on DIP switch SW-2, switches 3 & 4 need to be OFF).
In addition, you need to set the address for the XT-IDE ROM to fit into an unused area in the Bridgeboard. In my case CC000 worked well. You can use a DOS program called 'Checkit' to look at the Sidecar's memory map to find a suitable unused area.

Any other (newer) versions of the Sidecar/Bridgeboard Workbench boot disk will fail to recognise the XT-IDE at all. At this stage I don't know why.

Because the old Sidecar Workbench disk prevents me from creating a JH0: Amiga partition, as outlined in the Sidecar manual, I'm trying to find out why later versions of the Sidecar Workbench disk fail completely. If anyone has suggestions it would be much appreciated.

[A4000Bear]

I eventually partially solved my problem by a brute force method. I abandoned the idea of making a JH0 Amiga partition on the PC hard drive and instead I fitted an IDE68K into the A1000. This now works as DH0 for the A1000.

The XT-IDE card is now only handling a single PC partition for use by the Sidecar only. As before, this configuration works well as long as I use a very old version of Janus.library. Anything newer than 32.2, and the XTIDE boot menu fails to appear, even though the Sidecar is otherwise working well. If I examine the system's memory map using 'checkit', the XTIDE ROM appears in the expected place. I can even access the XTIDE using the configuration utility from a floppy drive. It just won't start up during boot.

Has anyone else tried using a later version of Janus.Library in a sidecar with XTIDE?