| From: | Gareth Griffiths |
| Date: | 8 Sep 2001 at 00:19:48 |
| Subject: | Re: [amigactive] Re: Two hard drives (again) |
Hello David,
On Friday, September 07, 2001 at 8:44:57 PM, you wrote:
>> See the following URL for a diagram of the IDE connections going
>> to/from the drives and the IDE interface (4-way buffered).
> We have a budding artist in the house ;p
:P I thought it was rather good myself ;)
> What software do you have for your IDE interface?
Like I said in an earlier thread, I'm not sure I have any! :)
> If you have IDEFix, chances are you are using atapi.device for the
Yes, I'm using atapi.device for the CD-ROM drive. The CD-ROM drive is picked
up OK so I assume it isn't atapi.device thats being a bar-steward.
I haven't actually got any "C:IDEfix" lines in my
user-startup/startup-sequence though.
> For the HDDs, you'll probably be using a patched or replacement
> scsi.device (whether it's EIDE99 or IDEFix). Make sure that the
Not sure, as far as I know its just the scsi.device that comes with
OS3.1/3.5? Thought it was held in ROM?
> software for the IDE buffer is actually running, and if it is a
I'll see if I can get IDEfix running (might have to download it from Aminet
again) and see if that helps. Never considered that it might be a software
problem!
> I thought one of them was a 2.5" drive anyway? Or have you not risked
> it yet :)
Well I managed to get two 3.5" drives and a 2.5" drive working together
earlier, using the 2.5" drive as the boot drive, and wiht no CD=ROM.
But trying to get two 3.5" drives working on their own is appearing to be a
right goit.
(pin1 on cable->>pin1 on HDD) - the amount of times I find the pins on
> opposite sides (comparing CD to HDD) still surprises me.
Double checked and triple checked PIN1's, and they are all OK. Must be a
software problem then really 'cos I can't think of anything else that might be
problematic. I'll head off and download IDEfix now.
Cheers,
GazChap, just turned 18. ;)
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