Amiga 600 slow initialize...

[zektor]

Well, I finally received my very first A600 ever today from ebay. I was so worried about it's journey from the UK to the USA, but it arrived in awesome condition.

It originally had 2.0 rom and I replaced it with a Multistart II rom switcher that contains 3.1 and 1.3 roms. The switch works fine and I can switch between OS roms, but I did have a question:

Booting into 3.1 rom seems to take some time? When I turn on the A600, it takes almost 30 seconds to display the 3.1 rom screen. Is this normal? When it comes to the 1.3 rom screen, it is as instantaneous as an Amiga 500.

I am guessing that the bootup sequence is polling for HD's or other peripherals, which is what is making it take a long time?

Hopefully someone knows if this is just normal or not. I do not know much about the A600

 

[B00tDisk]

Was the 600 even designed to WORK with 1.3 ROMs?

[blanning]

my 600 has 3.1 roms and a compact flash ide drive.  I was surprised by how slow it was also.  I noticed also that the higher resolution desktop modes were slow also.  I had to turn off interlace to make it not painful.  I don't remember my 500 acting like this either.  Maybe it's just software bloat in 3.1.  Or maybe I'm just used to my quad-code ubuntu machine.  :lol:

brian

[zipper]

3.1 Rom is waiting for HD quite a long time.

[zektor]

Yes, it works fine. But of course the IDE and PCMCIA drivers are not in 1.3, so these devices are non-functional when using a 1.3 rom.

[MozzerFan]

zektor wrote:

I am guessing that the bootup sequence is polling for HD's or other peripherals, which is what is making it take a long time?

Hopefully someone knows if this is just normal or not. I do not know much about the A600

 

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

[AndyFC]

You can get an A4000 IDE terminator from Amigakit, but I don't know if it works/is recommended for any other Amiga IDE.

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=831

[MozzerFan]

AndyFC wrote:
You can get an A4000 IDE terminator from Amigakit, but I don't know if it works/is recommended for any other Amiga IDE.

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=831

I think it's better to install an IDE HD or CF-IDE adapter + CF card.
The delay will be gone and he won't have to use slow floppy disks to use his system.

[AmigaHeretic]

That is the exact same thing with the A1200.  If there is no HD attached it takes for ever to get to that floppy animation screen.  It just waits a long time for the HD.  If I remember back in the day, a lot of HDs took a long time to sping up, so this delay is part of that.

If you put an HD in there the delay will go away, or as you've found with the 1.3 rom, no delay either as it doesn't even no the IDE port exists.

Miss my old 80 megabyte HD in my 1200.  Of course these days I'm not sure I have any data files smaller than 80MB  ;-)


Anyway, that sounds like normal operation to me.