One Buddha works one does not

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  • I recently purchased 2 Buddha 20th Edition

    I put a Buddha Interface in an A2000 and it works fine. I have connected 2 cf cards to port 1 and a CD drive to port 2.

    All devices work as they should.

    I put the second one in another A2000 and nothing. Wont boot from any device. BOM not working or cf cards etc.

    If i put the non working buddha into the A2000 with the working Buddha. And look in ShowConfig it sees both Buddha.

    If i swap the ide cable from the working Buddha to the second Buddha. It does not work. A2000 goes to purple boot insert disk screen.

    If i run BuddaInstallTool it says it has already got the updates.

    But i dont know which Buddha it is seeing in BuddaInstallTool.

    How can i get the second Buddha to work.

    Both buddha have the jumpers removed when using cf cards etc. And jumper on when i put BOM in.

  • I have tried to insert a DOM into port 2 and apply the jumper of the second non working Buddha.

    Then boot the machine from the Buddha with working cf cards.

    And no DOM drive shows up in workbench OS.3.2.1

    I run HDToolbox with Buddhascsi.device and it shows my 2 cf cards only

    If i run Showconfig it sees both cards.

    It shows:

    Board Type Vendor Product Address Size

    1 Z3 5080 ($13D8) 4 ($0004) $40000000 64MB

    2 Z2 Individual Compute Buddha Flash IDE Controll $00E90000 64KB

    3 Z2 Individual Compute X-Surf 100 Rev.3 Z-II/Z_I $00EA0000 64KB

    4 Z2 Individual Compute Buddha Flash IDE Controll $00EB0000 64KB

    5 Z2 Amiga Kit ZorRam A2000 ZII Memor $00200000 8MB


    under devices it shows buddhascsi.device address= $4000E5DC Version= 52.101


    I also have the ACE2B installed in both these A2000 and they work fine. Both machines have an X-surf-100. One with a Rapidroad on it.

    The only big difference between the 2 machines is one had a TF536 and the other has a Vampire V2 A500.

    The working Buddha works in either machine.

    The non working Buddha works in Non.

  • I have sorted it. The working Buddha was in Zorro slot 2. and the non working in slot 4.

    I swapped the two around then run Buddhaflashtool with rom 52.101.bin. reset the machine and the BOM showed up.

    I then removed BOM and jumper and swapped the cf cards to the non working Buddha and it now works.


    So all is good now

  • Interesting - I would have blamed the TF536 card, as that's known to cause trouble with Zorro expansions (after all, it's an A500 card). Anyway, good to hear that you've solved this.

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