A5000 - diving in at the deep end!

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:bravo:

There is hope for us other A5000 owners yet :)
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alexh wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 1:47 pm :bravo:

There is hope for us other A5000 owners yet :)
Indeed there is :)

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Wondering if the IDE ZIP drive that just turned up will work with the A5000?

Trouble is I don't have any IDE cables, who'd have thought I'd ever say that!!!

Gotta go and have a root through my big box o'cables.
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rubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 4:24 pm Wondering if the IDE ZIP drive that just turned up will work with the A5000?
No. The ZIP drivers for RISCOS are for the parallel port only.
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alexh wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 6:44 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 4:24 pm Wondering if the IDE ZIP drive that just turned up will work with the A5000?
No. The ZIP drivers for RISCOS are for the parallel port only.
Well that's a bit rubbish...

I'l save myself the time and reassemble it as is then :)
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rubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:10 pm OK, so I think I've fixed the A5000, I'm now able to boot correctly, get my drivers and desktop customisations.

I was looking at the *configure options and one is *configure drive X, with X being the number of the drive to boot from. I changed this value to 4, my first SCSI drive and it is booting!!!

I am going to continue testing, but it's looking positive :)
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stephen_usher wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 9:43 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:10 pm OK, so I think I've fixed the A5000, I'm now able to boot correctly, get my drivers and desktop customisations.

I was looking at the *configure options and one is *configure drive X, with X being the number of the drive to boot from. I changed this value to 4, my first SCSI drive and it is booting!!!

I am going to continue testing, but it's looking positive :)
Yay!
Yay indeed :)
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All reassembled and working, apart from putting the case lid back on. I'm very happy to see this screen again and have all my drivers load:

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Will put it back in it's permanent space later today.
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Yay !

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At long last!

Very well done!

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