Arrrgh! (FastATA 4000 MK-VI 8.0 and issues with keyboard.)

[slaapliedje]

Yup, same here.  Asus cable, and yeah, though the other 80 pin one that I have seemed more stable.  I also have several Asus ones laying around somewhere.  They have awesome motherboards.

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

So, in looking at power supplies, I was attempting to find a 'fanless' MicroATX power supply that was modular.

Closest I've found so far is this (not fanless, but really quiet!)

http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=342&area=en

What are everyone's thoughts?

slaapliedje

[danbeaver]

I hate to say it, but yeah the cable that came with the card looked used (which is more than I can say about the ones in my storage box); then again the speed I am seeing wasn't that great (same as a good SCSI-2 interface).  I was hoping to see it function under OS4.1 as a way to get some better speed out of my backup devices (CF cards).

That looks like a great PSU, but in the wattage range needed it would be hard to find one without a fan.  There are some damn quiet fans out there though.  I did have a Silverstone PSU once that failed just out of warranty, but it looked great even then.  Oh and look!  They sell them at Walmart for $94.

[slaapliedje]

Yeah, mine looked used and abused.

All the fanless ones I found had higher wattage, but they were full ATX size, and so probably wouldn't fit within the A4000 case.

Like this one;  http://www.silentpcreview.com/Seasonic_Platinum_Fanless_520W_PSU

slaapliedje

[danbeaver]

You know what I like about that PSU is that if it dies, you can use the housing to strain pasta!

If you pop back to the original specs of the 4000's 200W PSU, you will find one that is fanless and will fit.  Me, I live with a cat that snores, loudly, so silence doesn't happen often here.

[slaapliedje]

Ha ha, I just have kids that like to occasionally run around above my head!

Hmmm, pasta.  I think it's lunch time!

I read the label on the top of my A4000's PSU, and it said it was 145W.  I do think it'd be sweet to find a fanless 300w or so that'd fit.

slaapliedje

[danbeaver]

I thought the A3000 was in that range, but on looking 150W is standard;  the A4000T could handle a Toaster, CSPPC with several UWSCSI drives, multiple Zorro cards with merely a yawn on 240W.  Since they used a straight AT PSU, I bumped up to a 400W for sh-ts & giggles, well $49 too.

[yurif74]

Hello, i've the same exact problem, but i doubt is the power supply, because the problem persist even if i detach all hardware and leave only the fastata mkvi controller and the hdd, with a mere 3630 cpu card..
However changing psu has fixed your problem?
Juri

[danbeaver]

As I talked about earlier,  I have had PSU's go out of range for their specifications.  When I did a quick check under load (attached to the motherboard), the voltages seemed correct, but a check later showed large variances in the voltages.  This implies that the regulation is screwed and that the components with large enough capacitors are less affected than those with small ones.  Having an A4000D repaired is just as expensive as replacing it with a new mATX supply that easily fits within the old A4000D's PSU box.

[slaapliedje]

Hello, i've the same exact problem, but i doubt is the power supply, because the problem persist even if i detach all hardware and leave only the fastata mkvi controller and the hdd, with a mere 3630 cpu card..
However changing psu has fixed your problem?
Juri

My new PSU should be arriving Tuesday.  I think I'm going to go ahead and order the cable from Amigakit, so that I don't really have to hack anything together.  I am looking forward to having a quiet and modular PSU in my Amiga though!  Now if only I could hunt down a silent CD/DVD Rom/Writer drive.  I did find one called the Asus Quiet Track, but it doesn't look like it's available anywhere, and the only one I've seen is black.  

I will definitely post here if I have any success.

Closest I've had to success so far was the ability to format the CF card with PIO Mode 3.  At 4 it freezes the system, at 3 I can format it, still type stuff, reboot.  But as soon as I try to write anything to it, the Amiga freezes again.  

Funny thing is when it freezes, the drive light is on solid, and I can move the windows around, but clicking on anything or typing doesn't work.  If I move a window, the icons behind it don't redraw as well.

I also tested the "there's nothing in there but the accelerator, Mediator board and FastATA" but still no go.

With the damaged SATA-IDE adapter, and the used Asus IDE cable... this has shaken my level of trust in Elbox's products.  I'll blame them instead of Amigakit, since I'm pretty sure they don't just throw random parts into a box and send it.

slaapliedje

[yurif74]

The incredible thing is that my sata-ide adapter has never work too, and i had to rplace the 80pin ide cable included in fast ata card... elbox never replied my emails! For sure this is the first&last item i bought from elbox!

[slaapliedje]

Weird.  I think (could be wrong) that I fixed my IDE-SATA by soldering the capacitor back on.  I'm not sure though, since the drive I was testing it with was up on my shelf for who knows what reason.  It did briefly pop up in the disk manager of Windows 7, but when I tried to format it, it seemed to mess up.  But like I said, that could be the drive or the adapter.

slaapliedje

[danbeaver]

CF cards can act funny depending on their original design.  There is a long discussion on the way the CF cards firmware identify themselves to the bus and OS, so the same Brand card may act differently within its subset (intended for a camera, video device, etc).  The point of Jens' TrueIDE device was to identify the cf card as a hard drive, rather than its designed purpose.  The IDE-SATA adapter is just a run of the market $2 buck device that appears just like the regular Chinese junk out there.  Amazon and NewEgg have better devices for this purpose.  Hard drives transferring data at 10 MB/s don't need an 80-pin cable, new or used.

[yurif74]

Yes i noticed that the ide-sata converter is a piece of chinese s**t, however it work perfectly on windows machine. Just for curiosity i tried another ide-sata converter i have with fastata, result: amiga 4000 doesn't even boot!
I discovered that the master channel 0 doesn't work anymore (de facto it has never worked)

[Lozspd4]

Yes i noticed that the ide-sata converter is a piece of chinese s**t, however it work perfectly on windows machine. Just for curiosity i tried another ide-sata converter i have with fastata, result: amiga 4000 doesn't even boot!
I discovered that the master channel 0 doesn't work anymore (de facto it has never worked)

Hello
    I can Say also that i have the a4000 fastata with version 7 rom on it and the sata>ide adaptor has never worked by me neither,So ive never used it.

I,ve only got a A3640 fitted am using flash ide modules and am getting about 5/MBs,so i can,t complain.

What jumper settings do you Guys use on the mediator when using it in conjuction with fastata using the radeon as fastram.

And what is the diffrence between V.7 rom and V.8 rom.

Thanks
     Laurence

[yurif74]

Hello i do not have a mediator pci, i'm using it on a standard a4000 daughterboard. As far as i know (reading on elbox site) v8.0 have better support for cf drives.