AmigaOne 500 locks up after removing sii3512

[pioneer]

I have an AmigaOne 500. It has a sii3512 PCI SATA card with two ports. A Kingston SSD drive and a DVD drive are connected to the two ports. I'd like to pull the sii3512 card and connect the SSD drive to the onboard SATA port and leave the DVD drive disconnected for now. I'd like to try using a Sound Blaster 512 in the PCI slot since the onboard audio doesn't work very well. I pulled the sii3512 card and connected the SSD drive to the motherboard. I have OS4 on an SD which I can boot from if necessary. I modified the boot sequence so this is all working. It boots okay until it gets to the OS4 splash screen, then it locks up and won't go any farther. I also tried bypassing startup-sequence and it locks up at the AmigaDOS window. I'm wondering if anyone knows why it's locking up and what I can do about it.

[Spectre660]

Two questions for clarity .
What are you booting kickstart from ? The SD Card or the SSD ?
And what are you trying to boot OS4 from? . the SD card or the SSD ?

[Christopher Follett]

I have an AmigaOne 500. It has a sii3512 PCI SATA card with two ports. A Kingston SSD drive and a DVD drive are connected to the two ports. I'd like to pull the sii3512 card and connect the SSD drive to the onboard SATA port and leave the DVD drive disconnected for now. I'd like to try using a Sound Blaster 512 in the PCI slot since the onboard audio doesn't work very well. I pulled the sii3512 card and connected the SSD drive to the motherboard. I have OS4 on an SD which I can boot from if necessary. I modified the boot sequence so this is all working. It boots okay until it gets to the OS4 splash screen, then it locks up and won't go any farther. I also tried bypassing startup-sequence and it locks up at the AmigaDOS window. I'm wondering if anyone knows why it's locking up and what I can do about it.

Have you commented out the SII card in kicklayout?

[pioneer]

I can boot from the SD card. It is a copy of the AmigaOS4.1 update 2 install CD. There are some other things I can't do. I booted from the SD card with the SSD drive connected to the onboard SATA port. I tried to modify the kicklayout file on the SSD drive, commenting out all the drivers but the sam460sata one. When I tried to save the file the computer locked up. I tried using media toolbox. It said the drive was modified, even though I didn't modify it. So it tried saving the congifuration and the computer locked up. Later I discovered that it also messed up my partitions at the same time, wiping everything out. When I tried to resave the RDB, which it said was corrupted I got a guru. The pattern looks like whenever I try to save anything to the drive of any sort the computer locks up. I reinserted the sii3512 card and managed to get the drive straighten out, although I'll have to reinstall everything. It also locks up when trying to set up a different hard drive. Im thinking my SAM 460 motherboard has a bad SATA port.

[Christopher Follett]

I can boot from the SD card. It is a copy of the AmigaOS4.1 update 2 install CD. There are some other things I can't do. I booted from the SD card with the SSD drive connected to the onboard SATA port. I tried to modify the kicklayout file on the SSD drive, commenting out all the drivers but the sam460sata one. When I tried to save the file the computer locked up. I tried using media toolbox. It said the drive was modified, even though I didn't modify it. So it tried saving the congifuration and the computer locked up. Later I discovered that it also messed up my partitions at the same time, wiping everything out. When I tried to resave the RDB, which it said was corrupted I got a guru. The pattern looks like whenever I try to save anything to the drive of any sort the computer locks up. I reinserted the sii3512 card and managed to get the drive straighten out, although I'll have to reinstall everything. It also locks up when trying to set up a different hard drive. Im thinking my SAM 460 motherboard has a bad SATA port.

Have you altered jumper 16?
As the PCI-E x1 port and Onboard Sata share stuff. They become exclusive, you have to enable sata in uboot and make sure j16 is set right.

[mechanic]

@Pioneer

What filesystem are you using on the SSD?

[pioneer]

The jumper is on and Uboot is set to SATA-2. This is what the docs say to do. My SSD drive has SFS/02. I was able to save a couple of small files. Now I'm thinking it's the driver. If it is it's very flakey, not usable at all. I may have to give this up until the driver is improved.

[pioneer]

I solved the lockup problem by finding a 3-1/2-inch hard drive that the build-in SATA interface supports. It didn't like the Kingston SSD drive and a Toshiba laptop drive. Both were 2-1/2-inch drives. The solution was easy, but not really obvious.