Alfapower A500 oktapussy IDE patch - CF not visible in WINUAE
Hi,
I have an Alfapower for my A500 like this one: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/alfapower The rom on it is 6.10 and i have a KS 2.04 and classic WB Gaae. I have a transcend 4gb CF splited in 2 partitions of 2gb because i can't have one partition with 4gb (read errors). Only the first partition can be formated with FFS 37.26, the second partition can't be formated (error message=>NDOS drive). I've tried with PSF3AIO with no succes (PSF3 requestor: can't read block) but PSF3 worked on my previous 2Gb CF on the same alfapower. I have setted winuae with the expansion alfapower with rom 6.10 and the hardrive is setted on alfapower. All is working great on real A500 and on winuae but i wanted to solve my problem of 2nd partition so i've tried oktapussy ide patch (used to have large drive): http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/oktapus I have patched the RDB and it seems to work(4th method in the documentation). As describded in the documentation, the oktagon.device is then renamed to scsi.device. After that, winuae can't see the CF anymore. I've tried to change the properties of the CF to UAE, SCSI(auto) with no success. If anyone can help me it would be great thanks! :) |
Doesn't WinUAE need the Alfpower SCSI selected with the rom for the CF to be recognised?
If you use an A590 you have to select the SCSI controller + rom for that so the Alfapower should be the same. |
Thanks Arnie, yes i have alfapower selected with the rom and have changed the property on the hardrive too. So I wanted to reverse the patch on the real amiga (i have patched and revert this patch before on the A500). I precise that this time i've patched the rdb with winuae and now the Cf is not booting anymore :(/. My fault is certainly to have ptched the rdb in winuae.
if i boot into Workbench 2.1 with floppy i don't see the drive, is there a way to rollback this rdb update or may i format the drive :(? |
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What do you get if you type "version full scsi.device" in shell? |
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Not seeing partitions does not mean drive is not detected. EDIT: You should have created hdf image first and use it to test what happens. In worst case only RDB is corrupted, partitions are 99.9% surely still 100% intact. |
Hello Toni.
Here is the command line: Driveinit oktagon.device 0 sys:expansion/at Then the shell's log tells me that all is done. I have done this test before on my 500 and I have succed to revert this with: Driveinit scsi.device 0 And after reboot the device is again oktogon.device. My problem is that i can't boot on the cf in the 500or in winuae now... |
Does the drive appear in hdtoolbox? (if it asks to save changes, don't do it) ("hdtoolbox oktagon.device")
Does it work in WinUAE if you mount it as UAE controller harddrive? If not, log probably shows what is going wrong with RDB parsing. |
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i have hdinstool on floppy (the soft which comes with the alfapower) and i see the CF on my A500, i've quited witout saving.
here is a picture: http://hpics.li/ed4133c i will see the log in winuae now. EDIT: test made with winuae 3.1.0, if the hardrive is set to IDE the CF doesn't boot, here is the winuae log Attachment 45473 |
@ oissery77
Just a quick question: Is there a HD drive size limit? I tried to use the adf disk you linked to and it wont read the HDF properly (40mb). HDInstall is all but greyed out except the setup tab. Using the 6.0 rom shows no HD at all. I used A500+ default config. |
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"1. Once the new driver is installed, the device names are different! Device names are now scsi.device, 2nd.scsi.device, 3rd.scsi.device, ... This makes the use of HDToolBox much easier!" |
Ah O.K. One for you to check out, Toni.
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About psf3, does it mean that psf3 will work only on 2gb CF with my hardware? it's certainly why it worked on my previous 2gb transcend CF that is broken. Last thing Toni don't waste too much of your time, on my cf i have whdgames and demos. I have backup of these files on my PC not in an hdf file but in a folder.So i can reformat it... |
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Check end of winuaebootlog.txt for winuaelog.txt path if it is not in same directory. |
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Can you just answer me for this 2 points please: 1/when you says that partitionning in 2x2Gb "hides the error" , does it mean i will have read errors on the first partition? 2/About psf3, you says that the "PSF3 requestor: can't read block" sounds like driver limit, does it mean that psf3 will work only with 2gb CF using this expansion (I did not have PFS3 error message with my previous 2gb transcend CF) ? Thanks a lot, you're very helpful. |
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Anyway, i will give you the winuaelog.txt this evening. |
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Toni, here is the winuaelog.txt
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Only UAE driver can log more details because it runs host-side, others are pure m68k code, emulation only sees block access, it can't know what the driver does with the data. |
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sorry here is the log, mounted as UAE in harddrive tab, expansion rom : alfapower is activated in rom tab
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