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Offline bigwall68Topic starter

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FastATA 4000
« on: February 21, 2017, 12:49:41 PM »
Looking for quick advice.

Here is the setup:

A4000D
Channel 1:
8 Gig CF - 3.1 Workbench et al - works well
4 Gig CF - device recognized via sys info, but not able to be accessed

Channel 2:
CD Rom - device recognized via sys info, but not able to be accessed
Harddrive - accessible long enough for me to back up WB folder but now not able to be accessed

I did not receive a manual with the shipment.  Any advice on getting all 4 devices working is appreciated.  

-Craig
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Offline Pat the Cat

Re: FastATA 4000
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2017, 01:27:32 PM »
Need more info, like versions of Kickstart (3.1 40.70 for A4000 probably).

The CD-ROM will need a CD file system to get mounted - is at least one free one on Aminet. Copy it to L directory should help get CDs mounted and recognized.

http://aminet.net/disk/cdrom/AmiCDROM-1.15.lha
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Re: FastATA 4000
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2017, 01:34:39 PM »
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Need more info, like versions of Kickstart (3.1 40.70 for A4000 probably).

The CD-ROM will need a CD file system to get mounted - is at least one free one on Aminet. Copy it to L directory should help get CDs mounted and recognized.

http://aminet.net/disk/cdrom/AmiCDROM-1.15.lha


It should of came with the Elbox Floppy that has a CDFS on it, a real good one too. Did you install that, and the rest of the software as well? I would go to Elbox.com and get the latest software. I have it working very well in my 4000D and in my 4000T as well.
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Offline Pat the Cat

Re: FastATA 4000
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2017, 03:06:05 PM »
True Acill, latest/current version of ATA4000 does come with AllegroCDFS...

http://us-shop.elbox.com/en_US/p/FastATA-4000-MK-VII-CFSATA/109

Not sure if OP bought new or second hand, but at least the freely available AmiCDFS will let them read disks. That was my thinking. It's not the fastest or fully featured, but at least it should work.

I don't know about the CF cards, but I suspect the problem with the hard disk is, it was configured as a master, and is now on a slave channel. Check the jumpers on both the CD-ROM and the hard disk to make sure they are set properly.
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Offline bigwall68Topic starter

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Re: FastATA 4000
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2017, 01:06:49 AM »
Yes on 3.1 4070.  I've installed the software from Elbox.  Jumpers are correct.  

Strange thing is that all four devices show up in SysInfo and in FastATAPrefs.

Could be residual from IDEFix97?  There is a ton of files in Dev.
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: FastATA 4000
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2017, 02:23:29 AM »
Confirm Master/Slave set correctly on all devices on both channels?  AFAIK some of those really cheap-o IDE-to-CF adapters don't have a jumper and only work properly as Master.

Edit: didn't see your previous response.  It looks like the driver download on the Elbox website also includes a manual in the archive.  May be helpful?  Good luck!
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Re: FastATA 4000
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2017, 10:34:42 AM »
I now have both CF working off one FastATA channel.  Still no CD or hard drive.  

Assuming not all CD readers work with A4000?  

Still confused about why all four devices are picked up in SysInfo (scsi), yet not with HDTools etc.  Any additional advice?
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Offline Thomas

Re: FastATA 4000
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2017, 12:19:20 PM »
Quote from: bigwall68;822611
Still confused about why all four devices are picked up in SysInfo (scsi), yet not with HDTools etc.  Any additional advice?


Check icon info of HDToolbox. You can configure which driver to access and how many drives to search.

SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=scsi.device
SCSI_MAX_ADDRESS=3
SCSI_MAX_LUN=0
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