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V4SA 2nd IDE Device?

Klaus Kruse

Posts 2
06 Mar 2023 17:50


I bought the V4 standalone a few days back, and started to buy &try some additional equipment. One thing I would like to do is to connect two IDE devices to the internal IDE port, so that one can be the dedicated boot-device for the V4SA, and the other one can be a mobile device to go back and forth between the V4 and my emulator.

I got myself a cable with two connectors:
https://www.vesalia.de/e_252525[7662].htm

And I have a few different devices: A direct IDE SSD, two different IDE->CF adapters and one IDE->mSATA adapter. All devices work, on either connection of the cable. But whenever I connect two devices the the cable, only one of them is shown in the early boot menu.

I have tried just about every combination of master/slave/cable select settings imaginable, with no change to the situation.

So, does anybody know what the problem is/could be, and can propose a solution? Is this a known limitation of the hardware or the AROS ROM?


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6197
06 Mar 2023 18:03


Klaus Kruse wrote:

so that one can be the dedicated boot-device for the V4SA, and the other one can be a mobile device to go back and forth between the V4 and my emulator.

 
How about using the SDcard port as "mobile" device?
 
 
 
Klaus Kruse wrote:

I have tried just about every combination of master/slave/cable select settings imaginable, with no change to the situation.

There is a general problem that according to IDE/ATA specification, CF cards don't need to support slave mode. And not all CF adapter support it.
 


Klaus Kruse

Posts 2
07 Mar 2023 18:00


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

  How about using the SDcard port as "mobile" device?
 

Fundamentally possible, but not preferred. µSD-Cards are extremely loosable, and also the positioning of the slot on the V4SA is a bit fiddly.
Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

  There is a general problem that according to IDE/ATA specification, CF cards don't need to support slave mode. And not all CF adapter support it.

Yeah, but I have an adapter that does have a jumper for it, so I assume it does support it, but even if not I also have tried the combination of a PATA SSD and an mSATA on Adapter (just to check if the CF card is to blame), both of which definitely come with Master/Slave settings, with no success either.


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