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- From: Ben de Vette <vette@ats.nld.alcatel.nl>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: IDE-CDROM-A1200 Help Needed
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 08:52:42 +0200
- Organization: Alcatel Telecom Netherlands
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- Can somebody tell me what's the maximum length of
- the IDE interface cable on a A1200.
-
- I seem to have problems with it, after installing a
- quad-speed Gold-Star (type GCDR542B) my A1200
- will stop booting now and then.
-
- After pressing the three magic keys, the system
- will boot right into workbench.
-
- I'm currently using the unregistered version of atapi.device
- of the atapi archive on Aminet.
-
- When reading from CD-ROM, I sometimes
- get read errors and from this moment on my machine
- seems to block for a period of time (10 seconds) whereafter
- I can continue working to block again and again and again.
-
- I tried the tool setatapispeed with a speed of 2 and it
- seems that less read errors occured, but this is only
- a feeling.
-
- Furthermore the system refuses to see both harddisk and
- CDROM, when switching them on the cable.
- A1200-----CDROM----Conner420 works quite nicely
- A1200-----Conner---CDROM system boots till bootpic and
- no harddisk available.
-
- My configuration
-
- A1200-MBX 12030XA 50/25/8 HD420 Goldstar-CDROM
- all powered by a (please forgive me) PC powersupply.
-
- Thanks in advance
-
- Ben de Vette
-