TF536 on A2000

[matt020]

Success of a bit!!

I switched to digirom and I was able to get it to boot and i can see the cpu and ram in digirom but I still can't get her to boot with the 3.1.4 roms.

Are the 3.1.4 ROM's the problem?

[alenppc]

The card works fine with 3.1.4 roms (except on the A600).

[amimjf]

The card works fine with 3.1.4 roms (except on the A600).

Confirmed, in both my A500++ rev 8a (remake by Rob Taylor ) and A2000 rev 6.2 (remake by Floppy209).

Using 3.1.4 ROM and two different TF536's.

[remi.jakobsen]

TF536 works fine on my A2000/A2500. But there seems to be an issue with A2286AT bridgeboard and TF4536 - IDE interface. When a CF card is inserted (don't need to be mounted), the keyboard will freeze up or get stuck on keystroke. Mouse and the rest of machine works OK, only keyboard. Without CF card inserted, keyboard don't get stuck, freeze up. I use a GVP SCSI controller with a SCSI-SD adapter to get around this.

[terriblefire]

TF536 works fine on my A2000/A2500. But there seems to be an issue with A2286AT bridgeboard and TF4536 - IDE interface. When a CF card is inserted (don't need to be mounted), the keyboard will freeze up or get stuck on keystroke. Mouse and the rest of machine works OK, only keyboard. Without CF card inserted, keyboard don't get stuck, freeze up. I use a GVP SCSI controller with a SCSI-SD adapter to get around this.

I've seen some CF cards hold the reset line low. wonder if thats whats causing it. The IDE interface is definitely not hot pluggable.

[Lynxman]

When I install the A2090A harddisk controller it doesn't boot. I tried slot 1, 2 and 3. I also tried with and without a jumper on J4 (on the A2090A, autoboot-jumper) in all positions. Is there a way to get it working together with a TF536? I'm using firmware called: tf536r2_main_top_AMIGA_FULL_PHASE_7.jed dated 2020-08-02.

I'd like to backup the old 20 MB harddisk to the SDcard or CF.

[alenppc]

When I install the A2090A harddisk controller it doesn't boot.

This is very much expected. The A2090A is an abomination that never should have existed. If I remember correctly, it can only work on a CPU without caches (and it has other problems with a 68030) so you'd have to keep caches permanently disabled to get this awful thing to "work".

It's really only good for recovering Z80 CPUs.

[Lynxman]

OK. I'll have a go at making an IDE thingy for my 68000 and try that way.

Is the TF536 more compatible with other expansions than the TF534 is? Just wondering which one I should keep in the A2000. The buffered IDE is great if I want to add an optical drive, but the FPU is useful for rendering. Not that rendering on an Amiga makes sense.

[lilwashu]

Does anyone have any recommendations for a CF-IDE adapter to be used in an A2000 and mounted in one of the rear slot brackets? I bought one which turns out to be a V.D2 adapter, plus a 44-40 pin IDE cable for connection to my TF536 with buffered IDE and it doesn't see any CF cards. A Sandisk Extreme isn't seen at all and an Extreme 3 causes HDToolbox to pause for a long time when scanning scsi.device, long boot time, etc.

[alenppc]

Does anyone have any recommendations for a CF-IDE adapter to be used in an A2000 and mounted in one of the rear slot brackets? I bought one which turns out to be a V.D2 adapter, plus a 44-40 pin IDE cable for connection to my TF536 with buffered IDE and it doesn't see any CF cards. A Sandisk Extreme isn't seen at all and an Extreme 3 causes HDToolbox to pause for a long time when scanning scsi.device, long boot time, etc.

Let me get a few things straight first. When you say HDToolbox takes a long time, does that mean that the card is eventually found and it boots from it even if slowly? Do you get any error messages?