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Vampire 1200v2 IDE Issues

Ian McCarthy

Posts 2
30 Sep 2020 13:57


Hi all,

I have had my 1200 v2 for a few weeks now but only just got around to putting it together as I was waiting for some other components (I'm installing my 1200 in a Checkmate 1500+ case and you need lots of other 'bits').

My issue is that I cannot for the life of me get the Vampire's IDE interface to work, below is a detailed description and the steps I have taken so far:

My Amiga starting specs
Stock 1200 Rev 1 D4 motherboard (professionally recapped)
Hyperion Kickstart 3.1.4 ROMs installed
AmigaKit CF Adapter with Transcend 8GB CF
Workbench 3.1

Everything works fine in this config booting from the internal IDE interface

I then plug in the Vampire, leaving the CF on the onboard adaptorand it boots up fine, I can see my 128MB of RAM and Help-About says Powered by 68080 AMMX, Apollo Team, Bringing 68k year.

I thought at this point that I would just be able to power off, switch my CF to the Vampire interface and then boot up from there, but no joy, it just sits at the Amiga Logo screen with the Apollo text.

So I decided to boot from my install floppy, and after booting up I do not see the my CF paritions, if at this point I run HDToolbox it sits there scanning scsi.device for some time, slowly stepping through device and unit addresses, it takes a good minute or so to get to device 7 unit 7. Once the scan completes it shows no hard disks present.

If I power off and switch back to the internal IDE interface it works fine and boots up without issue.

Here's what I have tried so far:
1. Several different IDE to CF Adapters
2. Several different CF cards (always sticking to 8GB or less due to KS 3.1 restrictions)
3. Using FlashROM I tried updating the Vampire Kickstart to 3.1.4 to match the motherboard Kickstart version
4. Removed Kickstart 3.1.4 ROMs from my motherboard and replaced with my original 3.1.0 ROMs
5. Updated my Vampire from Gold 2.11 to Gold 2.12 (which also reverts the Vampire to KickStart 3.1.0)

In all instances I have been unable to get my Amiga to boot from or even recognise a drive connected to the Vampire's IDE interface.

I have been reading through the Wiki and the Forum and have see discussion about some of the beta builds having different interfaces enabled/disabled, but from what I can see IDE should be enabled in the 2 Gold builds I have tested with.

One thing I did note, when I had KS 3.1.4 installed on the Vampire was that HDToolbox would scan scsi.device and then scan second.scsi.device which gave me hope for a while, but utilimately still would not detect the connected drives.

Do I need to do anything to tuen the Vampire IDE interface on? Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
30 Sep 2020 14:01


Ian McCarthy wrote:

Do I need to do anything to tuen the Vampire IDE interface on? Does anyone have any ideas?


You need install core 2.13


Ian McCarthy

Posts 2
30 Sep 2020 17:00


Gold 2.13 RC3 installed and everything has jumped into life :).

Thanks Gunnar

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