Time To KickStart *issue*

[Daniele]

Hi,

I am reassembling one Amiga 1200 of mine with KS3.1 no HD.
I hooked FDD and Keyboard but when I power OFF and Power ON or when I reset seems to delay too much to show the KickStart.

I.E. if I give a "reset" I have to wait about 33 seconds to see the KickStart screen.
Is it normal? Or Do I have any issue?

Many Thanks

[weirdami]

There ain't no kickstart screen on A1200's.

[MozzerFan]

@Daniele

The delay is normal.
KS 3.1 has a boot delay to check for IDE devices. If you've got no IDE HD connected then the delay takes about 30 secs.

Edit: The delay is there because there are some harddisks that take a long time to spin up when you power on the system.

[Daniele]

@MozzerFan

Thanks a LOT!!!

[Thomas]

weirdami wrote:
There ain't no kickstart screen on A1200's.

How do you call this:

[weirdami]

@Thomas

"Insert Workbench", or perhaps more like "insert a bootable disk".

[Lorraine]

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[Daniele]

Nope...

on the Amiga 1000 after powering ON it appears

Insert KickStart

after loaded KickStart appears

Insert Workbench!

And back in the years when I bought the A500 seemed to be something good to not have to load KS before any software!

[Darrin]

There's a chap on here that makes an IDE terminator that attaches to the IDE header and stops the delay.  He sells them really cheap and they do work.  I bought one for my A4000 as I use a Zorro IDE controller instead of the motherboard one and had the same problem.

[Daniele]

Hi Darrin, maybe you are talking about the Amiga 4000 IDE Terminator that should be for A4000 Only!

[MozzerFan]

There also is a IDE terminator version for the a600 and a1200.
Look here.

[MozzerFan]

There are also software solutions. There is the blizkick NOIDE module.
Also when you have a deneb or kickflash, you can put the NOIDE module in the flashrom.

[amigadave]

Nice guns Daniele