Buddha. How To???!??

[mchaggis]

OK, So I ordered a Buddha for my Amiga2000; but the instructions are scant...at best and I can't find any FAQ's on the web.

I've plugged in the Buddha, attached a 40pin CF-IDE adapter and put on a 2GB CF card.

My Buddha can't see it; at least not using HDToolbox that is. Strangely enough when the bus is scanning for devices using the HDToolBox, the led on the CF adapter goes mad; indicating that it can be 'seen' and 'spoken' too.

But alas I dont get the option to partition up the CF card, and therefore dont get the option to install WB.

The A2K has 4MB RAM, 1MB Chip, it's a REV6.2 running ROM3.1.

Any help appreciated.

[keropi]

propably a bad adapter/cf combo... ahve you tried another?

[StarejMraf]

Buddha doesn´t work with any CF-IDE adapters. But e.g. Transcend ide flash disk work correctly.

[pyrre]

What WB version do you have?
My cf adapters are not seen by HDtoolbox from os 3.0/3.1
But it is very well seen from OS3.9s HDToolbox...
After 3.9 has partitioned the cf card it is shown by any WB and i can format the partitions.

[mchaggis]

Nah only got the one, another is on the way from Hong Kong, quite possibly on a slow boat...

[mchaggis]

WB3.1, I have WB3.5 on CD, but need to get the Buddha working to take advantage of that.

[Iggy_Drougge]

The Buddha ignores camera flash cards. The only alternative is to buy an "industrial" CF card or to tell the card to identify itself as a hard drive, using a small MS-DOS program. This works with Sandisk cards, I don't know if it works with other brands.

[blanning]

Iggy_Drougge wrote:
The Buddha ignores camera flash cards. The only alternative is to buy an "industrial" CF card or to tell the card to identify itself as a hard drive, using a small MS-DOS program. This works with Sandisk cards, I don't know if it works with other brands.

Do you have a link to that msdos program?  I'll be doing a similar project this weekend.

brian

[tnt23]

StarejMraf wrote:
Buddha doesn´t work with any CF-IDE adapters. But e.g. Transcend ide flash disk work correctly.

My configuration on 3000 for quite some time consisted of mounting bracket CF-IDE hooked to Buddha. I remember I had to use either HDInstTools or some other HDToolBox from a Buddha floppy, since the CF didn't show up with original HDToolBox.

[Marcb]

tnt23 wrote:

StarejMraf wrote:
Buddha doesn´t work with any CF-IDE adapters. But e.g. Transcend ide flash disk work correctly.

My configuration on 3000 for quite some time consisted of mounting bracket CF-IDE hooked to Buddha. I remember I had to use either HDInstTools or some other HDToolBox from a Buddha floppy, since the CF didn't show up with original HDToolBox.

I've got two CF cards running off a Buddha: one in Amiga 2000 and the other in an Amiga 3000.... I don't remember doing anything special to set them up other than partitioning and formatting them both with WinUae...

[Iggy_Drougge]

Marcb wrote:
I've got two CF cards running off a Buddha: one in Amiga 2000 and the other in an Amiga 3000.... I don't remember doing anything special to set them up other than partitioning and formatting them both with WinUae...

It would be interesting to know what cards you're using, since most people are having problem with Buddha and CF.

[Marcb]

Iggy_Drougge wrote:

Marcb wrote:
I've got two CF cards running off a Buddha: one in Amiga 2000 and the other in an Amiga 3000.... I don't remember doing anything special to set them up other than partitioning and formatting them both with WinUae...

It would be interesting to know what cards you're using, since most people are having problem with Buddha and CF.

Hmmm... Well, I'm not going to be much help then because both are  4gb 'DSE' Compact Flash cards, DSE is a chain of Australian electronics retail stores... I assume they buy them from an o/s supplier and rebadge them, but how to find out the original brand???


DSE LINK

[mchaggis]

Well I've just gone out and bought a 160GB PATA HDD; dropped it in and connected up first time. And given the MASSIVE price difference between CF and an IDE drive, based upon storage, I reckon I've made the right decision.

8GB CF = 160GB IDE; with 20 bucks spare

[Marcb]

That's great, the Buddha is up and running then?

[Iggy_Drougge]

Marcb wrote:
4gb 'DSE' Compact Flash cards, DSE is a chain of Australian electronics retail stores... I assume they buy them from an o/s supplier and rebadge them, but how to find out the original brand???

Perhaps it says in HDtoolbox.