Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 204 from 2005/10/13
From: PACA, France
Well, here is the latest update of the situation:
Problem description:
System boots, and everything looks fine. I make the IDE channels work a bit, and system hangs. Reset and OF starts (however, IDE devices aren't always initialized), but no ide device is detected (in some cases, only ONE device is detected). Not even probe-all detects all.
If I leave it for some hours unplugged, it all looks normal, until MorphOS goes down again.
+ Tried to use other memory sticks : no change.
+ Unplugged everything and "built" the computer from scratch (maybe something became unseated during transport): no change.
+ Tried different combinations : original HD + DVD, new HD + DVD, original HD + new HD, new HD alone, original HD alone - so far, no change (though I still have to test some jumper combinations - forcing master/slave instead of cable select).
What is WEIRD is that I could format & verify the whole new HD (200 GB, took a couple of hours) without a glitch. But then I rebooted, and the DVD was not initialized by OF. Some (unplugged) hours later, I could boot again from the a MorphOS cd to install it on the HD, but because I've installed boot.img and the system on different partitions (as recommended by a tutorial), MorphOS refused to load completely without reading the system from the CD... Of course, the DVD drive was no longer recognized!
Looks like the IDE puts the devices in sleep mode, and doesn't wake them up properly during reset.
BTW: Why on earth do I have to wait for some time with the computer unplugged (at least 10 minutes) before things go back to normal (like a cold reset does on a PC)?