Sonnet 7200 PCI programming

[torsti76]

Originally Posted by trixster

I'm using a 1280x1024 16bit PC screenmode for workbench, so something is still amiss with your setup

32.983 seconds for pixelomania

Close enough. I'm getting 33.809 in 1280x768x16PC.

I'm beginning to suspect there's some hardware issue here.

One of the major differences between our boards is that yours has a Ramsey 04, while I'm using the somewhat illegitemate Ramsey 07 + DMAC 02 combination. I'm a bit reluctant to try with the Ramsey 04 from my A3000 though. Firstly, because the chip is already missing a corner of its housing and second because of the known socket wear problems we are all beginning to have after faffing about with the DSP...

@Hedeon: What Ramsey, Buster, DMAC versions are you using in your AA3000+?

[trixster]

I think i have a spare ramsey 07 - if I have then I will swap that in and test

[torsti76]

Originally Posted by trixster

I think i have a spare ramsey 07 - if I have then I will swap that in and test

Thank you very much!!

[trixster]

ah, sorry - spare dmac and spare buster but no spare ramsey sadly, sorry.

[torsti76]

Originally Posted by trixster

ah, sorry - spare dmac and spare buster but no spare ramsey sadly, sorry.

No problem. I can't really imagine that Ramsey should be the problem here, though. I tried without motherboard FastRAM, just the 128 MB on the CS and it still behaves the same. DMA is not at play here, anyway...

What would be fun is to just plug each other's drives in and see if it's dependant on the installation after all. But UK is too far away. :-)

Are you using a SCSI2SD? Than I could send you my installed system as LHA (it's only a few MB, so it's relatively easy to wire-transfer) and you could try on a spare sdcard if your system behaves any different with my setup. You licensed 3.1.4, so we shouldn't have a problem there, either.

Just don't know if you've got enough time to spare...

[matt3k]

Well I have a Ramsey 07 and a DMAC 04 in my aa3000+ perhaps swapping will help.

I am using an acard 2000 SCSI to sata. I tried a scsitocf also with same results.

Using Amiga OS 3.1.4.1

I will look to find an 02 as well...

[torsti76]

Originally Posted by matt3k

Well I have a Ramsey 07 and a DMAC 04 in my aa3000+ perhaps swapping will help.

Oh, DMAC 04. Almost noone has this particular setup.
So there is variance between the boards after all.

I am using an acard 2000 SCSI to sata. I tried a scsitocf also with same results.

When I asked about the SCSI2SD it wasn't because it would (not) be working. I'm just exploring the possibility to swap entire system partitions between running and non-running setups without having to overwrite harddrive or SSD.

For a SCSI2SD such a swap would be very easy and cheap (as for a SCSI2CF, of course).

The ability to use true removables like CD-ROMs depends entirely on the revision of the SCSI chip, it's not DMAC related afaik.

[trixster]

@torsti76 I’m happy to try your SYS, but it’s easiest if you make an image of your sd card in full and send me that using something like win32diskimager - I don’t really have a properly setup winuae in order to mess around with lha’s of SYS:, so just ‘ burning’ a .img to a spare sd card is the easiest way for me to test even though the upload/download will be greater

[torsti76]

Originally Posted by trixster

@torsti76 I’m happy to try your SYS, but it’s easiest if you make an image of your sd card in full and send me that using something like win32diskimager - I don’t really have a properly setup winuae in order to mess around with lha’s of SYS:, so just ‘ burning’ a .img to a spare sd card is the easiest way for me to test even though the upload/download will be greater

Thanks, mate! Will do an image of SYS: and Work: later today and send you a link.

[Timtheloon]

Hi all just tried my A4KT with a BigRamPlus and A3660 to see if it would work with an Apocalypse with 256MB with Mediator mkII

And to my surprise it worked

I’m not use to OS 3.1.4 think classicWB has made me lazy

But here is the basic setup I had to start up two versions of which Amiga because the beta version was not showing my 060 speed on the A3660 think I’m missing some libs/files which are already found in ClassicWB.

But even with this basic setup Warp3D works and quake2 works (no sound) due to the mixer failing at the start

The following pictures are of inside A4KT and screenshot of its showconfig. There is a FastATA but I’m using it without its driver because it always seems to freeze I believe it doesn’t like Kickstart 3.1.4

[trixster]

I thought A4000T’s were scarce!? It seems like literally everyone but me has one!

[Hedeon]

Reminds me to get my A3000T in working order.

[Timtheloon]

Originally Posted by trixster

I thought A4000T’s were scarce!? It seems like literally everyone but me has one!

I had to hunt high and low for this one, Luckily I got it from a friend but still cost me a grand, 2 years ago and I had to get hese to fix my mobo

[Timtheloon]

The reason I was surprised it works is because I thought it wouldn't work with the mediator set with winsize closed for 512Mb

but I thought I would try due to me still being able to access the original Mobo Zorro slots which you don't normally have access to on a normal mediator (i.e. not built on the mediator by elbox) because usually it states that the bigram is not compatible with a mediator

So Im gonna try and get my OS 3.1.4 build working better and then see if I can give you the full results of this system

[Hedeon]

Originally Posted by Timtheloon

The reason I was surprised it works is because I thought it wouldn't work with the mediator set with winsize closed for 512Mb

Not sure what you mean...Your screenshot says the Mediator is in 512MB mode. Which is mandatory for PCI PPC cards.

[Timtheloon]

Originally Posted by Hedeon

Not sure what you mean...Your screenshot says the Mediator is in 512MB mode. Which is mandatory for PCI PPC cards.

Yes but because of the Bigram, I thought it would cause an issue like if you use a Zorro RTG, it want it set to 256MB Mode, has I say I don't really know I'm just glad it works

I thought there was a Zorro limit of 512mb but I'm starting to think that it maybe per Zorro card? (I know that's dangerous me thinking )

looking at this wiki page it mentions the Zorro III memory range being almost 1800mb

[torsti76]

Originally Posted by Timtheloon

because usually it states that the bigram is not compatible with a mediator

That's a myth. My BigRAM also works with the Mediator in my A4000T.
My A4000T is self-soldered from a NOS PCB, however. This way I could leave out the ISA slots and with a self-designed riser was able to place the Mediator where they'd belong so it doesn't cover up the second video slot....

[Timtheloon]

Originally Posted by torsti76

That's a myth. My BigRAM also works with the Mediator in my A4000T.
My A4000T is self-soldered from a NOS PCB, however. This way I could leave out the ISA slots and with a self-designed riser was able to place the Mediator where they'd belong so it doesn't cover up the second video slot....

Yes but that’s another A4KT I find on my A4k Mediator mkIII it doesn’t like it, it doesn’t like my kickflash either doesn’t recognise it at all