PiStorm32-Lite CM4, Expansion Breakout & 32Gb SD Card Bundle

[Kin Hell]

Originally Posted by mschulz

You can create as many Amiga partitions as you with. The limit is only the number of available partitions type 0x76. Each of these is visible as separate unit in AmigaOS. On each of them you create Amiga partitions of any kind using hdtoolbox.

Regarding RTC I personally use this one: https://eckstein-shop.de/RTCModuleDS...2C3V2F5VSystem

It fits nicely and is supported by my SetClockI2C from Emu68-tools.

Thank you for the correction. - Indeed I should have said only 3 x type 0x76 Partitions are supported.

Originally Posted by mschulz

A note on onboard eMMC. On CM4 models with eMMC the traces for microSD are not routed! The reason is both eMMC and microSD are connected to the very same controller. So, either eMMC or microSD, never both.

Will this ever change @ hardware level in the future?

& what of nVME on the back the CM4 Card? - Guessing this is using the same controller? https://github.com/PiStorm/cm4board/..._PiStorm32Lite

[mschulz]

Originally Posted by Kin Hell

Thank you for the correction. - Indeed I should have said only 3 x type 0x76 Partitions are supported.

Which is more then enough I use only one and have 6 Amiga partitions on it.

Originally Posted by Kin Hell

Will this ever change @ hardware level in the future?

I cannot speak for RaspberryPi foundation. For CM4 they took this decision and there's nothing we can do with that. I don't know if it will be the same in further versions.

Originally Posted by Kin Hell

& what of nVME on the back the CM4 Card? - Guessing this is using the same controller?

Will work on AmigaOS some day. I "just" need to write a driver for it, however free time is a limited resource...

[spudje]

Thanks all very much for the info. I managed to find a new CM4 lite for an OK price, which is the basic one with 2GB ram and no eMMC nor wifi if I'm not mistaken.

[Kin Hell]

Originally Posted by mschulz

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Regarding RTC I personally use this one: https://eckstein-shop.de/RTCModuleDS...2C3V2F5VSystem

It fits nicely and is supported by my SetClockI2C from Emu68-tools.

Do you need an entry in the config file to enable this at boot on the Amiga?
Linux sees it by default but CaffeineOS 9.22 does not?

[mschulz]

Originally Posted by Kin Hell

Do you need an entry in the config file to enable this at boot on the Amiga?
Linux sees it by default but CaffeineOS 9.22 does not?

If you have copied i2c.library from Emu68-tools to LIBS: and SetClockI2C from Emu68-tools to C: then the only thing you will need to do is to add

C:SetClockI2C LOAD >NIL:

somewhere in startup-sequence. Calling it without redirecting to NIL: will open the screen since SetClockI2C by default displays the date and time stored in RTC.

If you adjust your time later using e.g. Time preferences, you will notice that this will not allow you to save time. This is normal since battclock.resource believes there is no clock installed. However, after you have adjusted time you can open shell and call

C:SetClockI2C SAVE

to save current time into RTC.

[codepoet]

Anyone have an STL for the cover to fit this breakout board? Many break-outs boards have Micro-SD extensions, but this one has HDMI+Ethernet+USB, and I haven't found a cover yet