Author: Damion (dsl82-163-35-174.as15444.net)
Date: 08-12-2006 03:20
Ok guys... Partial success...
I got a Cable from Maplins, it was the wrong one.
Yes, Yo, it IS FEMALE to FEMALE, I was confusing myself too, sorry.
The Cable I got was a 3.5" to 2.5" - one that lets you use a 2.5" Drive on a 3.5" Line.
Now, I relaised that the Power line is taken from 2.5 but not 3.5 and so, I was wondering on this...
Now, its been what? 4 or 5 years since I had my old Falcon, and I was tryign to think which end the Power was on the IDE and I was sure it was at the back, so....
Phew!
What I am using at this time, is a CF Adapter, and a 512MB CF Card... Its a little iffy, but, on closer inspection, I am seeing that the IDE Cable does not truly fit 100% perfectly onto the Falcons pins. When it does, HDDriver sees it.
Now, I have been playing for a bit, and I am very happy to say, that I am now able to boot from the CF Card, and its got plenty of speed, and loads up Magic & Jinnee just peachy... Ok, let down by the fact that its a stock Falcon, but apart from that, its fine.
I still need to re-organise my HDs so the 4GB goes back into the TT and somewhere I have a dual-CF to IDE adapter and I will be using the 512MB Card along with the 4GB one just as soon as I can, the Power for the CF Adapter, is at the moment, the Floppy-Drive's one, so no floppy for now.
I have plenty of spares to simply join a pair of power connectors together but I have been concentrating more on this for the time being.
Anyway, its now booting a million times quicker ( ok, so a bit OTT, but you know what I mean ) To be honest, this is probably a better option than going for a real HD anway... I have a couple of HDs ready to go in, but thinking about it, this is just as good, probably better in fact.
The cable, and it not fitting too well, may be somehting I need to address, no I will need to, and I will quite probably just put a drop or two of rubber glue.
The Power coming from the adapter, I will snip, and not use, and instead splice the floppy one... Whether there is any benefits from that I dont know?
I do have a 50-68 pin SCSI adapter, and the lad I was talkign to said that these also exist for 2.5-3.5 IDE too!
Now, my CF Adapter, complete with CF Card, will fit onto one of the IDE Adapter,s and this will then fit onto the Falcons Pins, and this will fit snugly as hell.... This is quite possibly the way I will go for in future, its just a matter of finding them.
However, beggars cannot be choosers and what I have now seems to be ( If I sort it fully ) seems to have done the trick just nicely.
Now, all I need to do, is find out how the hell I can get the display on the Falcon to go any quicker.
The Falcons display when running NVDI 5.3 is slower than a TTs display when running no NVDI at all... Thats sad.
Oh, one other thing while I am here... There is a jumper quite near the IDE Pins, marked W10... What does that do?
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