#ICD AdIDE & 2.04
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HELP!
I am still looking for a way to contact ICD or confirm that they are out of
business. I have removed the ICD AdIDE controller from my wife's A500 and have
the 2.04 chip installed and working. If anyone knows why the AdIDE might be
conflicting with the 2.04 ROM please let me know. I hate to spend any more
money on this system to buy another controller since I am trying to save for a
A4000T/060 next year. I just want to get 2.04w/2.1 installed and working with
the 2.5 inch IDE HD I have inside the A500. Any suggestions?
David
(75714,2776)
>HELP!
> I am still looking for a way to contact ICD or confirm that they are out
>of business. I have removed the ICD AdIDE controller from my wife's A500 >and
have the 2.04 chip installed and working. If anyone knows why the >AdIDE might
be conflicting with the 2.04 ROM please let me know. I hate to >spend any more
money on this system to buy another controller since I am >trying to save for a
A4000T/060 next year. I just want to get 2.04w/2.1 >installed and working with
the 2.5 inch IDE HD I have inside the A500. Any >suggestions?
Well, I have an AdIDE on my A2000HD, but the kind that I have are for the
regular 3.5 inch IDE HDs. I also have the 2.04 ROM, but I don't use the IDE HD
as the main booting HD (I use the SCSI HD and the A2091 card that the computer
came with).
Based on what I have, there are jumpers on the AdIDE board that says 1.2
and 1.3. I have both of them open (no contact) and it seems to work fine with
me.
Danny
What exactly has happened? I have the same set-up with no problem. I started
off with 1.3 and upgraded a couple of years ago to 2.04 etc and everything went
flawlessly. The only giltch I had was when I first got the HD the computer
wouldn't recognize it. Turned out to be a problem with the cable. The number I
have for ICD Power Peripherals is 815-968-2228 if that helps at all. Its a few
years old.
George Morrison
Dazed and Confused on the A500 🙁
George,
Thanks for the phone number. >>What exactly has happened? I have the same
set-up with no problem. I started off with 1.3 and upgraded a couple of years
ago to 2.04 etc and everything went flawlessly.<< I have the ICD AdIDE
installed working fine with 1.3 and a M-Tec 2mb RAM expansion board. When I
replace the 1.3 ROM with the 2.04 ROM the A500 will not boot from the hard
drive or from a floppy. To check the 2.04 ROM I disconnected the AdIDE and
booted from a 2.1 workbench disk. It worked fine, I then reconnected the AdIDE
and had the same problems. I changed the jumper from 1.3 to 1.2 and the A500
booted from floppy but the O.S. does not see the hard drive. I have torn the
house apart looking for the ICD disk and manual that came with the AdIDE, no
can find. 2.1 HDtool box is no help either. I previously posted the error
codes from the guru screen but have not seen a reply yet as to what they
indicate. I'll try to call ICD today, thanks again for the number.
David (75714,2776)
Waiting just "two more weeks" for my 060/A4000T 😉