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Offline MilooTopic starter

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Elbox FastATA
« on: June 03, 2007, 04:11:58 PM »
Has anyone had problems installing a FastATA card?

It is detected by the amiga (4000) but when i load the software no hard drive or cd drives are detected, everything is plugged in correctly and with different cables.

Does anyone no how to do this, i even sent it back to amigakit for a replacement but the new one still does the same thing.

Also i had problems with os 3.9, i made an emergency boot disk and when i turned the computer off/on the disk wasnt reconised and the computer wouldnt boot? Why?
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Re: Elbox FastATA
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2007, 04:15:57 PM »
You need to copy the FastATA driver to your Emergency floppy and add it in the startup sequence.
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Re: Elbox FastATA
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2007, 04:24:20 PM »
What capacity is the hard disk?



Here is the first part of the OS 3.9 S:Startup-sequence:

C:CheckLMB
IF WARN
SYS:Prefs/FastATAPrefs
ENDIF

C:FastATA.driver QUIET
C:Stack 16384

C:SetPatch QUIET
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Re: Elbox FastATA
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2007, 04:56:17 PM »
I have a 40gb and 2 cd roms attached. How do i get into the s:startup-sequence - its been a while since i had an amiga
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Re: Elbox FastATA
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2007, 05:36:09 PM »
...start your favorite txt editor like ced,golded etc...and go to System:S/ and load startup-sequence   that is all..after that edit it and save..and reset!!
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Re: Elbox FastATA
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2007, 06:34:14 PM »
Just attach the 40Gb hard disk first- do not add CDROMs yet.

What partitioning do you have on the 40GB?

As it is larger than 4GB, you must execute OS 3.9's Setpatch to get it to be recognised (booting the emergency boot disk will do that)
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Re: Elbox FastATA
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2007, 07:59:15 PM »
I installed the hard drive using the motherboard ide and set the partitions to the default spec as os 3.1 told me (50/50) but after it gave me one partition as 8mb and the other 4gb!?

After i mounted the cdrom with idefix and made an emergency boot disk this where i got stuck 'cos the amiga never reconised the boot disk and so i havent been able to install os 3.9 just os 3.1.


To sum up i cant get the hard drive reconised on the FastATA card and cant get the emergency boot disk to boot.

After i installed os 3.1 on the hard drive and installed the FastATA driver i connected it to the FastATA card and hoped it would boot but it never.
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Re: Elbox FastATA
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2007, 08:05:40 PM »
You must *always* run OS3.9 Setpatch and the FastATA driver before attempting to partition the hard disk.

If you have a 40GB hard disk I would recommend partition it in the following way:

SYSTEM: 500MB  (Make bootable in HDToolbox - checkbox)
Work: 1.5GB
HDD: 2GB
HDD2: 36GB

Make sure that the hard disk is set to NOSPLIT in the FastATA prefs.

If you wish we can provide a service where we prep/partition/install the entire hard disk for you and load OS 3.9.  We will edit the startup-sequence and install the appropriate FastATA software.
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Re: Elbox FastATA
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2007, 09:39:00 PM »
Amigakit is right, I have three and never had a problem. Just boot 3.1 and put fastata install disk in drive and click on fastata driver on disk. Then partition your drives. When you format use quick format.
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Re: Elbox FastATA
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2007, 10:23:48 PM »
I'm having various issues, having just bought the FastATA III 1200.

Everything seems to work fine (at times), then when reading from the drive, it'll sometimes just hang the system. I'll reboot, and the hdd light will stay on. A while later I'll get the kickstart screen...

I am guaranteed to get this lockup when I run a game such as Shogo or HereticII, loading from disk...

Any ideas on that? I'm lost with it all.

To the above query; I just installed the software as it said. I have one HDD (primary master) and one CD Drive (secondary slave). They both show up. I also noted that the installer did not update my startup-sequence wit the checklmb part (see readme for installing manually).

Close to giving up now >.<

Steve

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Re: Elbox FastATA
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2007, 10:47:05 PM »
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stevieu wrote:
I'm having various issues, having just bought the FastATA III 1200.

Everything seems to work fine (at times), then when reading from the drive, it'll sometimes just hang the system. I'll reboot, and the hdd light will stay on. A while later I'll get the kickstart screen...

I am guaranteed to get this lockup when I run a game such as Shogo or HereticII, loading from disk...


 Just a guess, but those games are not peecee ports? They COULD try to write something to the hd directly (like peecee does) and lockup the system. Check also if you have a working MMU in your CPU.

 Install stackattack from aminet.

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