Progressive Periferals and Buddha IDE card.

[mchaggis]

Hi,

My 'new' progressive periferals 68040 card arrived today, complete with 32Mb RAM.

Unfortunately whilst the card works fine, it refuses to play nicely with my Buddha Flash IDE card.

Firstly, some diagnostic background:
1. I have set the 040 to 4MB RAM; the rest i'll add with AddMem, so I dont / shouldn't have a problem with the Zorro-II memory limit.
2. I have removed all other cards, except the Buddha.
3. Motherboard Battery removed
4. ROM's 3.1.
5. A2000 Rev 6.2
6. Workbench 3.1 (have 3.5 on hand and will install once Buddha up and running).

When I turn on the machine, it will not give the boot screen or boot into workbench. However if I remove the Buddha it will boot.

And, if I set the Accel card to 68000 mode, the Buddha will pick up and boot from the IDE hdd.

It doesn't look like a driver issue, as we dont even get to loading any drivers.

With the Buddha removed, using the WB3.1 Install disk I am able to boot to workbench and display the full 32MB RAM, and SysInfo reports a humming 040 processor; happily faster than an A4000

So what do I do? I like my Buddha, and dont want to go back to SCSI. Yet at some level the 040 and Buddha seem to be incompatible.

[mongo]

1. I have set the 040 to 4MB RAM; the rest i'll add with AddMem, so I dont / shouldn't have a problem with the Zorro-II memory limit.

Don't do this. There is no reason to and it could cause problems. The RAM on the 040 is not in the Zorro-II address space and it will not cause any problems with the Zorro-II memory limit.

[rkauer]

 :rtfm:

[mchaggis]

Cheers, the location of the DMS files and the manual will be a great help.

However no matter which way I cut it, the only way I can get the machine to boot is to disable the 68040; if I have the card jumpered to run the 040 AND the Buddha is present, no boot screen and no HDD access.

If I remove the Buddha, everything works.

I'm a bit stumped, I really want to use the Buddha.

Suggestions?

[CLS2086]

Reduce the autoconfig ram from 4 to 2 mb, and put the buddha the closest slot to the 040

[mchaggis]

OK some further developments.

i removed the Buddha and plugged in a A2091 with an old HDD.

Jumpered the 040 to run in 68000 only mode; reinstalled WB3.1, Installer, LHA, ClassAct and ReqTools. So far so good.

I then jumpered the 040 to run with the 040. It booted! Run's nicely.

I installed the "040 Installation" software, rebooted, every thing runs even better

I plugged in the Buddha, no drives. It booted.

I reinstalled the Buddha installation software. It rebooted and runs even better.

I attached the CD ROM to the BUddha; it rebooted, even using the 68040, and displays all the RAM as present. SysInfo 2.7 tells me all sort of great information about the card, the RAM and the 68040 CPU, MMU, FPU and so on.

Note that I have disabled all RAM from the Autoconfig Zorro address range. Doesn't seem to bother the A2091 with it's 2MB on board. All up the box has 1Mb and 34Mb RAM respectively.

SO far so good.

I attach the Seagate 160GB PATA/IDE HDD. NO BOOT!!!!

It looks like my new HDD is the problem.

As I dont have any other PATA HDD's to try I'm a little stumped. I initially thought the BUddha and Progressive Periferals 68040 were fighting over address space, but this doesnt seem the case now, as the Buddha with IDE CDROM will happily work with the 68040.

BUT, with the system configured as described above, if I jumper the 040 card to run in 68000 mode then everything works.

Suggestions?