PCMCIA CD-Rom not working with Blizzard 1230 MK-II

[bob808]

I have recently added a blizzard 1230 MK-II accellerator (with 64MB Ram and FPU) to my A1200 and everything was working well.

I also purchased a PCMCIA CD-ROM (Zappo) and have had problems getting it working.  I decided to try it without the Accellerator and guess what - it works fine!

Has anyone experienced these problems before, and more importantly found a way to get them to work together?


Cheers


bob808

[bob808]

The plot thickens - if I remove the 64MB from the Blizzard , the CD-Rom works!  I have tried (and failed) with combinations of my 32MB simms, and a 16MB that I have, but with any RAM, the CD does not work.  The accelerator must be clashing with the PCMCIA slot or card?

Is there anything I can do here or is it just a new accelerator/pcmcia card that I need?


cheers

bob808

[rockape]

Hi,

This has intrigued me as well.

I have a MKII Blizzard 030/50 and have used it with a Sqirrel (SCSI) CD ROM no problem.

However, why the external PCMCIA Drive should clash with your memory is baffling ?

My only suggestions are, double check that you have the Memory Jumper Settings correct on the Blizzard, and also, check to see if the Blizzard has a SCSI Card attached.

Edit.

Perhaps you need to install some software to enable the CD ROM to be seen.

Regards, Michael

aka rockape

[Lando]

On non-PCMCIA friendly turbo-boards, the PCMCIA address space clashes with that of the fast RAM limiting you to 4MB, but the Blizzard is supposed to be PCMCIA friendly.  Nonetheless if you try a 4MB SIMM, and it works, then that must be it.

[amigagr]

i didn't have any problem with the mk4 version of bliz030 at the past but mk2 as it's an earlyer version maybe have problems with more than 4mb of ram and pcmcia stuff

-edit-
for me, 64mb of ram are more important that this zappo thing.
get a new cheap cdrom and put it as slave in the ide port. sooner or later the zappot will be for the garbage anyway.

[ElZorro]

I have the same problem.
I check from time till time your topic to see what the solutions are, because I want my drive to work!

Which programme(s) do you use to make the cd-drive work with a Amiga?

R they download-able from aminet?

Thanks, Frisby
Amiga 1200, Blizzard 1230, 64MB, 2xHD (250 & 170MB)

[drewz21]

Can anybody recommend a good Accelerator card for the A1200 desktop that is PCMCIA friendly with the memory expanded?

I'm looking to expand mine as well and I've looked at differend 68030's and 68060's but don't know how to tell.

[amiga1260]

Blizzard 1260 and 1230 IV or III. They are PCMCIA friendly. I used them with the Squirrel SCSI-controller and 10 MBit PCMCIA network cards (Target and Dynalink).

B1260 with SCSI-kit and 128 MB RAM and B1230IV with SCSI-kit and 48 MB RAM.

[drewz21]

Thanks 1260!  

[amigakit]

@bob808

I remember using the Zappo with a Blizzard many years ago and I seem to recall that disabling the CPU cache made it work with the Zappo software at the time, e.g. CPU NOCACHE in the shell.  

What revision of Zappo software are you using?