Prometheus in A4000T...

[Jose]

Anyone with this combination ? How well does it fit ?
Regs
José

[redrumloa]

Jose wrote:
Anyone with this combination ? How well does it fit ?
Regs
José

I used to use one in a self-built A4000 Tower. What type are you going to use one in? Self built? Commodore? Escom?IIRC the Escom one has a scsi adapter that gets in the way and you must install the prommy in the bottom slot.

[Jose]

Escom:-D

[redrumloa]

Do you have the SCSI module installed? If so, I think you have to install the Prommy in the bottom slot, obstructing all other Zorro slots. There is a way around it though, use the prommy with right angle PCI adapters. I posted guides here a few years back on how to use a Prommy in a desktop A3000 and A4000, but the concept would work in a A4000T also. That should free up some Zorro slots.

[Jose]

It doesn't work without the SCSI module. I guess that workaround you posted should work, getting the slots flipped 90º is a mess. In what concerns physically fitting the boards the Mediator wins any day. I hope they get this sorted if new version of Prometheus comes out.

[Failure]

I have this set up with the Prommy in the top slot; my solution is pretty ugly looking, but I am sure that someone more competent could make it look much more nice and permanent.  Despite how it looks it has worked fine ever since I set it up:

A4000T remote-mount disk module 1
A4000T remote-mount disk module 2

Also I made this thread in case you find it helpful.

If you try this and make it look better, I would love to see how you did it :-)

[Jose]

@Failure
Yeah that's helpfull, cheers.

[alewis]

redrumloa wrote:
There is a way around it though, use the prommy with right angle PCI adapters. I posted guides here a few years back on how to use a Prommy in a desktop A3000 and A4000, but the concept would work in a A4000T also. That should free up some Zorro slots.

Got a link/copy of the guides? Search doesn't throw it up

[redrumloa]

alewis wrote:
Got a link/copy of the guides? Search doesn't throw it up

Found the A4000 one on a quick search, but the links and images are all gone since they originated from now defunct Anachronism Industries server.

HERE

I will search my local HDs when I get a chance to see if I have backups of those pictures.

[Boot_WB]

Thought you may be interested in my A4Kt/Prometheus solution.

Just got to test it to make sure it works :-)

Regards



Rich

[Boot_WB]

Tested, and it is working fine (after a few glitches updating Picasso96). :-D

My only problem is (I believe) software related. I get graphical corruption on workbench when I select "execute command" from the workbench menu. Not sure why this is, as I can browse through disks, etc with no problems. I suspect it is some Picasso96 setting but which one?

Any ideas?

Regards



Rich