A4000 + IDE hard disk???

[gdanko]

I put a 20 GB IDE hard disk in my 4000T. When the jumper was set to master the computer wouldn't try to boot.. would sit at a gray screen. However, when I changed it to CS (cable select) the computer would start booting. Is there something special for the 4000 that requires that jumper be set to CS versus Master?

[Brian]

Most likely it has something to do with the harddrive not the machine. I've had several harddrives that only worked as Master if they where jumpered CS (some also need to be jumpered correctly according to slave present or not, aka single drive or master with/without slave), if jumpered as just Master they hanged the IDE chain.

[LoadWB]

::nods::  Yup.  When I was testing all of my IDE drives (a couple dozen at this point) cable select does NOT work.  Western Digital Caviars (older) and new WD models, Quantum Bigfoot, Seagates, Fujitsu, IBM DeathStars... all the same, CS=bad :-)

[Dandy]

gdanko wrote:
I put a 20 GB IDE hard disk in my 4000T. When the jumper was set to master the computer wouldn't try to boot.. would sit at a gray screen. However, when I changed it to CS (cable select) the computer would start booting. Is there something special for the 4000 that requires that jumper be set to CS versus Master?

Wasn't the A4000T the one with an SCSI-Host-Adaptor onboard?
If so, I would suggest to operate the drive connected to the SCSI adaptor (via ACARD SCSI->IDE adaptor).
It works flawlessly and you have the advantage that you can connect up to 6 devices to the SCSI chain...

[pierre]

to do that you would need like a SCSI harddrive....

[gdanko]

And a 2GB SCSI disk will cost more than a 20GB IDE.

[adolescent]

He was refering to using an Acard SCSIDE adapter.  With these you can use cheap IDE drives on your Amigas DMA SCSI controller.  I have a Western Digital 120GB (IDE) on the CSMK3 SCSI in my A4000.  Works great!

[gdanko]

Off topic but is there a decent IMAP4 client for Amiga?