Reply 20 of 30, by dr.zeissler
wrote:1. XT-IDE BIOS has no issues with the Janus software, I have it running on my A2000 and A2286 bridgeboard. 2. By using the IDE […]
1. XT-IDE BIOS has no issues with the Janus software, I have it running on my A2000 and A2286 bridgeboard.
2. By using the IDE port on the soundcard, you are already saving a slot, no multi I/O card needed.
3. I have an ET4000 in the first slot, CT2910 with a 4GB CF card connected on the secondary IDE port in the second slot and a 3Com 3C-509B NIC in the third slot.
4. The 3C-509B card serves 2 purposes, it houses the XT-IDE BIOS and it allows the Amiga side of the A2000 to use the network card through the bridgeboard.
5. Admittedly it is slow, about 60KB/sec, but still more than fast enough to transfer ADFs and WHDload files.
6. Have you soldered in the 16 bit extensions on the 8 bit ISA slots in the A2000?
7. Just wandering why you have the Etherlink III at IRQ 5 rather than 10 or 11 so that it doesn't conflict with the SB part of the soundcard.
8. Also set the address of the Etherlink III to 280h rather than 300h or 330h to prevent conflicts with the MPU-401.
1. Good to know that XT-IDE does work in an A2000
2. Do you boot from scondary IDE of the 2910? how fast is that (bench) and do you need/use a hardfile too? (CF card with Ontrack957 I think?)
3. The ET4000 is a great card, but has issues in old apogeem ega titles that does not allow or have a svga-fix like (ddave3/4) (jumping causes wiered display charcters)
4. I have to look what 3com-card I use. There are ones with 10mbit and ones with 100mbit. But 10mbit is fast enough for my purpose.
5. Every bit must find it's way through the DP-Ram (128kbit). I am not sure how fast a-wirte and a-read are. I am pulling the data from the pc-side to the amiga.
6. Yes every ISA-Slot is 16Bit.
7. It was preconfigured at I5/300H, I can change that. If I choose an address that is used by another device I get the info. But I can thange it to what I want and still get a negative FIFO test (before even the Irq is tested)
8. see above.
- Where do I get an XT-IDE Bios (chip) from, so I could boot from a secondary IDE-Port?
- You could also generate a mini Hardfile and put io.sys/msdos.sys/command.com into it and boot from, there? and use the CF-card for drive D? (need a smaller card because no Ontrack957 is bootet AND you get a beep from every acess of the hardfile when using/activating pc-speaker e.g. connected to soundcard.
Would you like to have some cool scene-stuff that works on 286/8/et4k ? I can put my tested stuff here.
Retro-Gamer 😀 ...on different machines