Sonnet 7200 PCI programming

[OSH]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

I wouldn't say you need to find a professional, just someone with some basic soldering experience. If you're going to go the ATX route, find someone who can correctly identify the 3.3V pin on the back of the busboard and solder the wire to it.

Did you saw my clip? 3,3 V was correctly identified and wire was soldered by Stachu. I have any clue to doubt in his professional skills about this. The last thing what I should do is connecting this wire with 3,3 V in ATX. But first, I had to convert ATX PSU for Amiga 4000…

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by OSH

Did you saw my clip? 3,3 V was correctly identified and wire was soldered by Stachu. I have any clue to doubt in his professional skills about this. The last thing what I should do is connecting this wire with 3,3 V in ATX. But first, I had to convert ATX PSU for Amiga 4000…

Maybe there's a language barrier here, when you say inserting the cable directly into the connector, I was picturing just shoving the wire into the PCI connector. Stachu knows his stuff and I don't question that he did it in the correct place.



It's going to cost you more for a good ATX power supply and then paying someone to do it, than just paying someone to modify the K1 which should cost about $5 for the the VRM + soldering.



Changing to an ATX power supply is a major change to the Amiga and unless you get a known good one, you're going to have problems from a weak 5V rail which is common to most modern ATX power supplies.



Unless you need to replace your power supply anyway.

[OSH]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

Maybe there's a language barrier here, when you say inserting the cable directly into the connector, I was picturing just shoving the wire into the PCI connector.

No, absolutely not. I mean, inserting wire into ATX PSU connector (for mainboard). But you have right: my English is very poor. I speak German much better...

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

It's going to cost you more for a good ATX power supply and then paying someone to do it, than just paying someone to modify the K1 which should cost about $5 for the the VRM + soldering.

Well, I think about it. But I'm afraid whether original PSU after 25 years is still trustworthy...

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by OSH

No, absolutely not. I mean, inserting wire into ATX PSU connector (for mainboard). But you have right: my English is very poor. I speak German much better...

Well, I think about it. But I'm afraid whether original PSU after 25 years is still trustworthy...

Most likely not trustworthy unless it has been recapped in the last 10 years or so. If you get an ATX power supply get one that people have recommended already has having a strong, stable 5V rail, like the Corsair CS550M or SF450 which has a nice 3d printed mounting system for the A4000.

Corsair SF450 power supply I can not recommend I had problems, my recommendation be quiet! SFX L Power 600W or Seasonic SSP-300SFG for smaller 4000 systems

[trixster]

Grelbfalk is using an sf450 and I have an sf600 and I don’t believe either of us are seeing any issues.

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by trixster

Grelbfalk is using an sf450 and I have an sf600 and I don’t believe either of us are seeing any issues.

Though I have a slightly different ATX->A4000 motherboard adapter, one that pulls the 5V A4000 Pin to two different ATX pins, Trixster might have done that too.

I should mention that the SF450 does have one problem that I can think of, that the system does not load it enough to spin the smart fan to a useful level to cool the rest of the A4000. You'll want to open the power supply up and plug that into 5V or 12V if you want a leaf blower. Same with the CS550M.

I just wanted to mention that there could be problems with the Cosair, the cooling was not the problem I have 2x 120mm fan installed.
The problem occurred with me in connection with the SUM keyboard adapter.
Others had no problems with the power supply.
It is also important to pay attention that the cables from the ATX adapter to the motherboard min. AWG14 should be.

Now back the 3.3 volt rail you could feed directly to the mediator board. So the card is not modified.

Well I think that one has written here, I think stachu has made this mod.

[BULI]

I have question about Shogo MAD on Sonnet.library (exactly PowerPC. library rev 17.10).


It does not mather how I configure Shogo MAD, or how many MB of ram I will give as buffor, game always reading some files while playing.


Is possible to play game Shogo without reading files from HDD while playing?

[Hedeon]

Load everything should be a selectable option beneath the sliders

[BULI]

Originally Posted by Hedeon

Load everything should be a selectable option beneath the sliders

I tried everything, option "PRELOAD ALL" too, but always 100MB (from 196 MB of Sonnet ram) are still free, and always some data are reading while playing!?

[Hedeon]

I guess working as intended.

[kgc210]

Just wanted to thank everyone who has worked on the ppc library.
I have just got my K1 Installed and working.

Got Quake2 Running fine, Quake after adding -ahi -guardband
Also ADoomPPC running fine.

Would it be possible in the drivers for it to use Radeon memory as local to the PPC as I only have 64MB due to it being a K1 or would the memory still go through the 68K Bus even though both the K1 and Radeon are on the PCI.

Just a thought for running Quake 3 on the K1 and M1

[Hedeon]

If vga memory is added by the mediator software to memory, it is already used by the ppc if onboard runs out. Never tested the speed, though.

[kgc210]

I need to recheck my setup as I am getting "Sonnet - PowerPC Exception"
It is a very clean install, WB3.1 BetterWB, Mediator, Warp3D and Picasso, that it really. Running on a WarpEngine with an 060 @80Mhz 128MB RAM on Warp and 64MB on motherboard.



Just checked OpenBOR.wos and getting a similar error.

Bit odd how ADoom, Payback (Well with odd sound issues), Quake1&2 all run ok though.

[Hedeon]

This on the K1? Not enough memory.

[Hedeon]

And payback doesn't use ahi. That it even works is a bonus.

[kgc210]

Yea K1, So OpenBoar.wos needs more RAM than the K1 has as well?
That's why I was wondering about using the Radeon for extra RAM, although mine is only a 128MB model though (Above pic is with the Radeon adding memory).

At least I know, still awesome to play Quake 1 and 2 for peanuts compared to a Sonnet or PMC Card.

[Hedeon]

Or CSPPC or BPPC.

If you get the Radeon memory initiated and added to system memory next to your voodoo, let me know then we can test that Radeon memory

[kgc210]

Yes I have the Voodoo set at 15MB Graphics (Tried 13MB as well)
The Radeon is set as 128MB System RAM
K1 Shows as 58.5MB

If it helps this is how it all sits:

WarpEngine
MotherBoard
K1
Chip
Radeon as System