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- From: Slayerthegreat@prometheus.hol.gr (Touliatos Panagiotis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Blizzard & IDE Cd-rom probs.
- Date: 7 Apr 1996 02:35:37 GMT
- Organization: Hellas On Line
- Message-ID: <2101.6671T91T983@prometheus.hol.gr>
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- I have this _ kind of setup ,with my 1200.
- |
- _______ V
- | Tower |___
- | case | | __________________
- | | | | |
- | | |_| amiga 1200 |
- |_______| |__________________|
-
- I pulled out from the IDE Controller a 2,5"->3.5" cable about 20cm long,then i
- made an 1m 40pin cable in order to reach the inside of the tower where my hard
- disk & CD-rom are located.I just connected the 3,5" out of the 2,5->3,5 cable to
- the long cable and next with 2 connectors to HD & CD-rom.
- This setup was working fine while i was owning an Microbotics 1200z card with
- 4megs and math-co ,but something seems to going wrong by the time i have installed
- my blizzard 1230 IV.
- Some programms crashes while the system is booting ,the are no special progs that
- causes this because the phenomenon is totally random.
- After a 3-4 reboots ,the system loads normally.The strange thing i have noticed is
- that if i boot with no startup-sequence and load a game ,demo or something like
- that and then perform a reboot ... guess? loads normal!!!.
- Today one friend came with his cd-rom in order to test it if it works with my
- amiga ,the cd was a quad speed .
- After we have it inside the tower and setting the jumpers in the right way ,the
- system refused to load (progs crashes) whatever how many reboots i made and
- the pic i use for bootpic came corrupted on screen .
- So i think that there is some kind of data loss in transmision from the disk to
- the controller.
- If i disable the blizzard the system loads normally and both HD & CD-rom works
- fine, but the system load takes at least twice time .
-
- So is something wrong with my blizzard? or perhaps the blizzard overloads the
- internal IDE controller? .
-
- If anyone have even a little clue about this ,please tell me so.
- Thanx in advance.
-
- P.S. Both HD & CD-rom are powered up by the tower.
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- Slayer The Great
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