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  • Buddha 20th Anniversary and A2000/Kick3.1

    Thanks a lot Jens! :-)

    Indeed, 4MB of memory felt like being the king of the world back then :-) I just wasn't sure if it would be eating up more when I tried to use such a large drive as 16G, but all good then :-)

    Now I also finally understood BuddhaInstallUpdate1.2.lha - I somehow totally missed out on the Buddha wiki that the files in BuddhaInstallUpdate1.2.lha are meant to be copied to the DOM, but I did notice that the files looks similar when comparing then in Dopus before, so I guess that's just because the DOM coming with my Buddha 20th already has the same files.

    I have copied a few CD's to my Work partition now, it seems to work just as it should, only showing the wrong capacity as it is supposed to do on a Kick/OS 3.1 system.

    It's ready to rock like it's 1992 -thanks again! :thumbup:8)

  • Buddha 20th Anniversary and A2000/Kick3.1

    Thanks Jens! :) Ahhh - I am truly getting rusty'n'old here :-) Of course it has to do about the boot priority. I did hold both mouse buttons to be able to boot from the buddha DOM after trying to install.

    Now I wiped my 16GB Sandisk in a PC, and tried again - it booted straight into the Buddha setup, found the card, and all good :-) I have now let the installer format it, resulting in a approx 500 gig WB and a 15XX gig Work partition. I totally forgot that the system of course will not report the right sizes using these old OS*s. I installed the CD ROM drive and are now copying random data to the work drive overnight for testing. If it doesn't work I will post about it, otherwise it means it works (to anyone reading this) :-)

    Indeed, I remember having issues back in the days installing a larger CF card on my Oktagon controller using the Oktapussy fix from Aminet too and the new HDtoolnox. It is awesome you have made it so simple, and this is really what makes your product so damn nice :-)

    The 2GB card (a Transcend) which failed and wiped my Workbench partition was installed by the Buddha software, however, it was installed by booting Workbench and then clicking the Install icon from the DOM. I am not sure if the install script works correct that way, I have the feeling that it maybe doesn't. This was also the only way I could actually find the CF cards after fooling around, before I thought about wiping them on a PC to give it a fresh start again.

    Quote from Jens

    That installer update is for the DOM, not the Buddha ROM/flash. THe update for the installer is to deal with low-memory conditions, which you should not have if you have 8M extra from your Octagon.

    Further, the flash update for the Buddha ROM may also not be required if you have just bought the controller. I believe it comes down to two simple things here: Boot priority and displayed partition size.


    I am a bit confused about this part :-) I seemed to successfully flash something using BuddhaInstallUpdate1.2.lha, but I am not sure what, now that you write it is an installer update. My system has a total of 4MB RAM right now (Oktagon not fully populated with zip RAM) - the system boots, it works, but if I was to update anything to deal with low memory, which file should I then be using? It seems not so clear to me which files are used for what when I check the wiki :-)

    ... thanks again for the great answers Jens!

  • Buddha 20th Anniversary and A2000/Kick3.1

    First of all, thanks for supporting the community with so many great products Jens! <3 I have quite a lot of your stuff, both for C64 and Amiga!

    Recently I got to install my 2nd Buddha 20th Anniversary controller, as I already successfully have one operating in my other Amiga 2000/Kick 1.3 system.

    The new one gives me some trouble though...

    I am currently using a base system to try to narrow down any errors, however with an Oktagon 2008 (where the HD controller is disabled) to benefit from the extra memory
    I have on that card. I have of course tried without the Oktagon 2008 too, with same results.

    1) The Buddha controller doesn't always find my drive on the primary controller. It doesn't really matter if I put a 40GB IDE drive on it, og if I am using a CF adapter.
    I have tried with a few different CF adapters, the one I am using though is exactly the same I am using in my other A2000/1.3 - it's bought at the same time, it's from
    the same batch, they look totally identical.

    2) First time I booted, the Buddha auto booted into the system, but ever since, it only boots into the CLI screen. I have no idea how it stopped starting up the software
    automatically. I am currently typing InstallBuddha to start the install process. But no drives will be found... and I really don't understand why it doesn't start up
    automatically, as I didn't do any changes to the DOM myself.

    3) However, if I boot from a Workbench floppy, and then start the Buddha Install from the icon on the DOM, then it will find the drives.... no matter if it's HD or the CF.
    But... it will always only format a Workbench partition of roughly 500Mb and the Work partition of just below 2000Mb. No matter what I do, I can't force it to format
    the partitions any larger. Using the newer HDtoolbox from Aminet also doesn't help. I remember on my other A2000 that the Buddha automatically made a Workbench
    boot partition of a lower capacity, and then prepared the remaining data for the Work partition.. but it doesn't seem to work here. I wonder what I am doing wrong? :-)

    4) I tried to use a 2GB CF card, just for testing, and let the Buddha install software format and prep everything with WB3.1. But when I started to copy some random test data to the Work
    partition it suddenly destroyed the Workbench partition.. so I guess something is wrong since it override the partition tables somehow. I tried the same with a Sandisk CF 16B card - same issue...

    Basically, it seems that I can get it to work if I manually use HDtoolbox from Aminet and setup for example 5-6 smaller partitions, choose to install it with PFS3 from the DOM - but I really would like to have just 2 max 3 partitions...


    I feel I have tried all sorts of combinations right now. I even tried to use the DOM from my other Buddha controller, also that doesn't boot up automatically?

    My PSU is totally OK and has been fixed and ready for this century, so any issues should not be caused by that. Also the A2000 is a NOS A2000 which I bought some 15+ years ago, battery was removed at that time and then it was stored for more than 10 years until now :-) So I believe the motherboard should be 100% OK, it looks in mint condition.

    I have read through all posts here... I tried flashing the ROM, and it is currently flashed with BuddhaInstallUpdate1.2.lha - but I also tried 1.1, but no change. There is probably something I am missing out.. I just don't know what? :-) Any hints?