A1200 mobo IDE dead

[Vincent]

Well, that's possibly that then...

Every single HD I have will absolutely not work with my A1200 with or without the 4-way buffer.

My 20GB hd died a good few months ago now (August?) and after a while of trying my other hds and getting them to temporarily work I gave up.

Gone back to it yesterday and today and there's absolutely no sign that the A1200 can see them at all.  Waiting 30 seconds each test is really annoying.  But I waited each time anyway incase a few of them were slow starters.  Some of them are positively ancient.


The 20gb Quantum Fireball drive clunks along like Ken Dodd's teeth on a dinner plate.  Definitely dead.  Mind you, it's lasted a good few years with me and even longer when it was my mum's PC hd.

210mb Connor is dead, still powers up occasionally, but is very temperamental, or just mental :crazy:

??mb Quantum ProDrive is dead.  No idea how big it is, but definitely less than 850mb.

200mb?? Connor drive works perfectly in the PC.

270mb Western Digital Caviar works perfectly in the PC.

850mb Western Digital Caviar works perfectly in the PC.

2.4gb Maxtor works perfectly in the PC.  My original A1200 hd.

30gb MDXL22 (can't see the proper name on it at all) works perfectly in the PC, and has Vista installed.  Our original P3 300mHz hd.


All the drives that work in the PC power up in the A1200, but the A1200 still waits the 30s and shows the insert floppy screen.  This happens if the IDE buffer is connected or I'm using a 2.52-3" cable.  All the cables are fine, I've even used the cables from the PC aswell with no luck.

I've tried everything I can think of - changing jumpers, places on the buffer chain, disconnecting every piece of hardware, reconnecting the hardware one by one checking after each install.

All of that for each drive except the dead ones.

Guess I'll have to wait until I can get the money together to order a new PAL mobo from Vesaslia.

If they get the PAL ones back in sometime.

--edit--
Damn this infernal new wireless keyboard with its slightly different layout making me look like I can't spell :-P

[countzero]

don't ditch your board, if only IDE is the problem, it can still be useful for a tower project where IDE is more a nuisiance than a necessity.

[Tomas]

All the drives that work in the PC power up in the A1200, but the A1200 still waits the 30s and shows the insert floppy screen. This happens if the IDE buffer is connected or I'm using a 2.52-3" cable. All the cables are fine, I've even used the cables from the PC aswell with no luck.

But have you used any hdtools software from WB and see if they show up there? I think it is perfectly normal that the purple screen remains if there is no bootable amiga partition i dont think it even shows up in the early boot screen if the HD's lack a amiga partition.

[Vincent]

countzero wrote:
don't ditch your board, if only IDE is the problem, it can still be useful for a tower project where IDE is more a nuisiance than a necessity.

It's already in a tower - Eyetech's Z4 tower with a BPPC/BV, SD/FF, 52x CD-ROM and the IDE buffered interface.

Aswell as 2 monitors.  I was thinking that if I do get a replacement mobo I'd put this one back in it's original desktop case and use it purely for old skool gaming :-)

[Vincent]

Tomas wrote:
But have you used any hdtools software from WB and see if they show up there? I think it is perfectly normal that the purple screen remains if there is no bootable amiga partition i dont think it even shows up in the early boot screen if the HD's lack a amiga partition.

Ah yes, I have tried that, I just forgot to mention it :-)

It's like when you use it without an hd connected.

I've also tried a different PSU that I know works.

--edit--
And I've tried the reselection.