derSammler wrote:Afaik, XT-IDE collides with the Janus software. Also, you'd need another ISA card to put the BIOS on. But then, you can also just use an XT-IDE card and don't need IDE on a sound card at all. The whole point of his question is to save one ISA slot.
XT-IDE BIOS has no issues with the Janus software, I have it running on my A2000 and A2286 bridgeboard. By using the IDE port on the soundcard, you are already saving a slot, no multi I/O card needed. 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. 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. Admittedly it is slow, about 60KB/sec, but still more than fast enough to transfer ADFs and WHDload files.
dr.zeissler wrote:currently this setup is not working, because the etherlinkIII always does a negative FIFO test regardles which adresse I configure.
I don't think that the etherlink is defective. The etherlinkIII is preconfigured at 300H and I5, but the 300H collides with the SC1630 Formosa, which has MPU401 at 300h.
Have you soldered in the 16 bit extensions on the 8 bit ISA slots in the A2000? 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. Also set the address of the Etherlink III to 280h rather than 300h or 330h to prevent conflicts with the MPU-401.