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[iowtheme]

Hi All

Having some probs with IDE CDRom and IDE-Fix 97

Currently I have a 4gb SamDisk Ultra Compact Flash.

Installed on a IDE ATA CF Adapter for Ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

A4000 Buffered ide interface for http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/...roducts_id=599

I have set-up the CF with WinUae and Partition in to x2GB and running with OS3.5 and boot fine.

Now Add the Buffered ide interface to the A4000.

I have add the IDE CDrom to port1 ( Primary Slave ) and the 4Gb CF to port0 ( Primary Master ) . The CF boot up fine.

Now install IDE-Fix 97 to the CF card to set-up the CDRom, IDEfix finded the CDrom fine and install the driver, and now it will not boot-up the Amiga?

Uninstall IDEfix from CF in WinUAE and put it back in to the Amiga 4000 and it boot-up fine.

Anyone experienced this problems.

Thank All

[spaceman88]

Did you try the CF card and CDROM without the 4 way adaptor? (that's the way mine is hooked up).

Hi All

Having some probs with IDE CDRom and IDE-Fix 97

Currently I have a 4gb SamDisk Ultra Compact Flash.

Installed on a IDE ATA CF Adapter for Ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

A4000 Buffered ide interface for http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/...roducts_id=599

I have set-up the CF with WinUae and Partition in to x2GB and running with OS3.5 and boot fine.

Now Add the Buffered ide interface to the A4000.

I have add the IDE CDrom to port1 ( Primary Slave ) and the 4Gb CF to port0 ( Primary Master ) . The CF boot up fine.

Now install IDE-Fix 97 to the CF card to set-up the CDRom, IDEfix finded the CDrom fine and install the driver, and now it will not boot-up the Amiga?

Uninstall IDEfix from CF in WinUAE and put it back in to the Amiga 4000 and it boot-up fine.

Anyone experienced this problems.

Thank All

[MozzerFan]

The original version of idefix97 does not work with CF cards that are set to removeable (for example, sandisk CF-cards are set to removeable).
It only works with CF-cards that are set as fixed disk.
 
Doobrey wrote a patch for it to work with CF-cards that are set to removeable.
 
You can find the patch here : http://www.doobreynet.co.uk/amiga.html

[stefcep2]

Thank you!!!!

I have had this problem for 1 year and have not been able to find a fix for it.  Hopefully it works, I'll try it at home tonight.

[iowtheme]

Thank MozzerFan
 
Will try it today

[MozzerFan]

@stefcep2 & iowtheme
 
NP, but the credits all go to Doobrey. I'm just the messenger.
 
@stefcep2
 
Doobrey wrote the patches in september 2009.
The 4-way IDE adapters that use idefix97 as the software driver are not the only ones that have this problem.
The drivers for the buddha and xsurf-cards also suffer from this, and Doobrey also wrote some patches for that cards.
 
The original thread at EAB where all this was discussed can be found here: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=47196&highlight=idefix