Unable to get IDE to work on Atari

[stephen_usher]

OK.I've managed to make a cable! Yay!

One of my CF cards works too.

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Well, 4MB is a tad small so I'd like to use a larger one.

However... the 128MB FujiFilm CF card gives:

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I can't boot with the CF drive installed (repeated crash or EmuTOS drops to the desktop and can't read any device). If I leave the system in HDDriver HDDUtil as above the system will crash after a while.

(Just forget the Hitachi 1GB Microdrive as that just locks the IDE bus.)

Any ideas as to how to get the 128MB CF card to work or is it a lost cause?

[stephen_usher]

Oh. This is interesting. I connected a real 60GB hard disk and I'm getting higher bits being set in the device ID when it's read and it's not always consistant.

The drive's ID should be "IC25N060ATMR04-0" but I'm getting either "iC:5060aTMR44-0" or "iC:5060qTMR44-0" or "iC:5060qTMR<4-0". It's also reporting an erroneous size, and the corruption is getting worse the longer the machine has been running for.

This TF536 has the buffers installed.

[derkom]

The drive's ID should be "IC25N060ATMR04-0" but I'm getting either "iC:5060aTMR44-0" or "iC:5060qTMR44-0" or "iC:5060qTMR<4-0". It's also reporting an erroneous size, and the corruption is getting worse the longer the machine has been running for.

I've seen some nearly identical behaviour from the same IDE-CF adapter in my Falcon. It appeared to work reliably with some CF cards and not with others. I never did track down specifically why, and ended up switching to a 2.5" IDE-to-SD adapter instead, and haven't had a single problem since. (Link is to a random vendor for this card. It's a generic Chinese thing, so you can find the same model all over the place.)

[stephen_usher]

The ID example was an actual spinning rust drive.

[derkom]

The ID example was an actual spinning rust drive.

Good point, you did say that, didn't you? Carry on.