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fitzsteve wrote:Hi!

Sorry my first post is to report an issue

I recently purchased OS4.1 Classic for my A1200T, my system is as follows:

A1200 Rev1D4 with Timing Fixes
Blizzard PPC 330mhz +256mb Ram
Mediator 1200SX
FastATA MkII (only used as scsi.device)
Voodoo 3 3000
Realtek 8029AS
Subway USB
2x DVDRW's

(Unused for OS4.1 but in system SB128 for my OS3.9 partition and RealTek 8139D)

Not important for this issue but its housed in an EZ Z4 Tower & powered by a 300w ATX PSU.

I've installed OS4.1 to a 20gb IDE HDD and the OS is working fine, since my FastATA is not supported by the ATA3 driver I thought about adding a SATA drive to my system.

I purchased 2 supported SATA Cards with chipsets sii3512 (2port) and sii3114 (4port)

Both exhibit the same problem in my system, I can see the device in MediaToolBox and can read the drive and make partitions however when I try to save changes the MediaToolBox locks up and the changes are not saved

I tried partitioning a drive under WinUAE and when OS4.1 boots the partitions appear on the Workbench but before loading of the OS is finished the system locks up.

I have a 2nd Mediator here, an LT4 so I also tried with this and it does exactly the same thing.

I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has SATA working on an A1200/Mediator setup or if anyone has any suggestions.

I also tried to comment out the two spare un-needed SATA drivers but this did not help.

I have tested with just the bare minimum connected, i.e just the Blizzy, Mediator, VGA Card, SATA Card & DVDRW(On 4WayIDE) Booting from Live CD, of course, I still had the same issue

Thanks in advance.

Steve.

fitzsteve wrote:Hi!

Thanks in advance.

Steve.

fitzsteve wrote:OMG, it was that simple, wait jumper closed

Thanks, I now have SATA working

fitzsteve wrote:Thanks Darren, of course when I had SATA issues I was checking the SATA area of the FAQ for idea's, I didn't even think OS4.1 would boot with incorrect jumpers hence why I overlooked that.

Might be worth adding to the FAQ somthing along the lines of:

Q: MediaToolBox locks up when I try to save changes to a SATA drive connected to my PCI SATA card, what could be the problem?

A: Check that you have closed the 'WAIT' Jumper

Thanks for the support guys.

Steve.

What you need to do is the following:-

Install OS4.1 on to a small HD or compact flash from the CD.
A SFS/00 partition, 512MB Bootable called BOOT: under the first 4GB for example will do and keep it on the native IDE.

Add your SATA Controller (sii 3512 is the better 2 port card or sii3114 for 4 port) connect up your sata harddrive / sata cdrom and power up.

Mediatoolbox will now show scsi.device and sii3xxxide.device

Select the sii3xxxide.device and read the drive config.
Create a FFS2 DOS7 or SFS/00 DH0: partition, 512MB, bootable will do in mediatoolbox.
Create a 255MB SWAP: partition as per the FAQ and move it to the end of the sata disk, leave the rest in the middle blank for now.

Reboot

Quick format DH0: on the sata drive, but don't try to format SWAP

From the shell

CD BOOT:
Copy #? all clone DH0:

This will copy your OS4.1 install to your sata drive partition DH0:

You can now delete everything off boot: except for the following drawers

Kickstart
C
S

In C: and S: on boot: all you need is s:startup-sequence and c:bootloader & C:ata3.driver


Now create a text file called bootdevice with just the text 'DH0', nothing else and save it as BOOT:kickstart/bootdevice

Open BOOT:kickstart/kicklayout-A1200 in notepad

Uncomment the bootdevice line at the bottom of the kicklayout file by removing the ';'

Open a shell and type:-
Reboot sync

This will close all filesystems down gracefully and perform a cold clean reboot

Your kickstart will now boot from BOOT: using the native IDE, similar to powering on the A1200 under 3.9 and setpatch adding the AmigaOS ROM Update. Once the kickstart modules have been loaded it will soft reboot.

Workbench will now boot from DH0: on the sata drive instead of BOOT:

*Open a shell and type fc-cache -fv to rebuild the font cache if you accidently didn't use the clone option when copying from one partition to the other, you might need to do this twice on SFS/00 partitions.


Things you can experiment with now are:-

Remove your native IDE CD-Rom drive and put your old 3.5" hardrive on there instead as slave.
Prep the unused space in the middle of the sata drive, I recommend JXF/04 but if you want it visible from 3.9 use SFS/00 and copy over your data.

You can delete the kickstart drawer from DH0: as it not needed in this setup now.

AmigaOS 4.1 will now use its memory pager when physical memory gets low as you have a swap partition available.

If you don't want the native IDE available under OS 4.1 you can comment the following line out of boot:kickstart/kicklayout-a1200

Module kickstart/A1200/scsi.device

From now on you will have a pure SATA system under OS 4.1, with only the native IDE used to boot the 4.1 ROM