04 November 2018, 20:12 | #4041 | |
Retro maniac
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: near Munich / Germany
Posts: 486
|
Quote:
https://gitlab.com/MHeinrichs/Zorro-LAN-IDE Not sure is it something we can use, though |
|
04 November 2018, 20:51 | #4042 |
Banned
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: UK
Posts: 2,917
|
it literally just needs to talk serial.
A linux driver for this would be utterly trivial. Why why why is AmigaOS 100x more complex than any other operating system just to put a characters onto a fifo and read some back. |
04 November 2018, 22:25 | #4043 |
Registered User
Join Date: May 2018
Location: Milano
Posts: 59
|
Hi,
I just did a quick test installing beta 11-03 and 11-04 on my TF530@25MHz. Amiga is a rev 6a where I also installed a 2MB trapdoor expansion with Gary adapter. With RC2 everything works nice and smooth, with 11-03, WB 3.1 barely boots, but crashes as soon as I try to open a drawer. With 11-04 it crashes while booting, i.e. screen remains black and power led starts to blink (I believe it does so 6 times before rebooting). What can I try to help diagnosing? Thanks Chris |
04 November 2018, 22:28 | #4044 | |
Banned
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: UK
Posts: 2,917
|
Terrible Fire Accelerators
Quote:
Very odd. Try without the gary adaptor. Which ram chips do you have? Do you know what resistor you have on the IDEWAIT line? Last edited by plasmab; 05 November 2018 at 09:09. |
|
05 November 2018, 14:25 | #4045 | |
ex. demoscener "Bigmama"
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Fyn / Denmark
Posts: 1,654
|
Quote:
8n1 works fine as a (faster) replacement for serial.device. When you say you need a 'driver' what does that mean exactly? |
|
05 November 2018, 14:38 | #4046 | |
Banned
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: UK
Posts: 2,917
|
Quote:
I need the support code that AmigaOS needs for a serial port device driver. I want to tear the guts out and communicate with my device inside it. |
|
05 November 2018, 16:45 | #4047 | |
ex. demoscener "Bigmama"
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Fyn / Denmark
Posts: 1,654
|
Quote:
Ahh.. So basically a skeletal serial device you can add your stuff to - I don't know the source code of 8n1, so can't comment on how easy it is to rip apart/reuse. |
|
05 November 2018, 19:39 | #4048 |
Posts: n/a
|
I got my TF530 rev3 fully operational!
Many thanks to this community and especially Stephen for creating and sharing all this (this project gave my A500 a well deserved 2nd life, as well as vastly improving my soldering skills in the process )!! |
05 November 2018, 20:26 | #4049 |
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Posts: 27
|
Hi all,
I did a test of the 11_4 beta on my TF530@50MHz installed in an Amiga 500+ and it works great. Compared to the RC2, the CPU and IDE speed in Sysinfo is a tad slower. While at it, I also did a test with my 8MB AlfaRAM side expansion (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/alfaram500). But when connected, no expansion boards are detected regardless of the configuration (disabled, 2, 4, 6 or 8MB). This is the same behaviour as with the RC2 but unlike RC2, the IDE on the TF530 now works when the AlfaRAM is connected. I guess a special firmware is needed so that the RAM won’t collide at 0x200000, but will that also fix the board detection? |
05 November 2018, 21:09 | #4050 | |
Banned
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: UK
Posts: 2,917
|
Quote:
This is quite odd. The Alfa ram may be being naughty and just decoding the address bus and not the AS pin. That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. The TF530 doesn’t assert AS, LDS, UDS or RW during a bus cycle intended for the onboard. All zorro ii space config reads fall into this category until the two onboard cards are configured. After that it allows autoconfig to make it into the Amiga and find anything lurking on the bus. I’ve tested this with the Kipper2k card and a real zorro card on the A2000. I suspect some of the less well behaved A500 sidecar upgrades might misbehave. Are those cards available anywhere? |
|
05 November 2018, 21:10 | #4051 |
Retro maniac
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: near Munich / Germany
Posts: 486
|
Yes, its a little slower cause 1ws was added,
RAM isn't working cause there is a conflict at 0×0200000 - both cards are fighting against each other, maybe autoconfig of that card tries to occupy whole 8MB Zll space despite 2/4/6 settings.. |
05 November 2018, 21:20 | #4052 | |
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Canada
Age: 44
Posts: 910
|
Quote:
No, Stephen removed the wait state in the final beta. But once again, do not rely on SysInfo for measurements, it is NOT accurate. I only have the Microbotics side ram expansion for the A1000 to test with and that one works fine with the TF530. The kipper card stubbornly tries to configure the ram in the same ZII space as the TF530 ram, so that one won't work without patching |
|
05 November 2018, 21:59 | #4053 | |
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Posts: 27
|
Quote:
|
|
06 November 2018, 08:55 | #4054 | |
Banned
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: UK
Posts: 2,917
|
Quote:
I’d only need to run for a hour or so. Wonder if anyone in Glasgow has one. |
|
07 November 2018, 22:59 | #4055 |
Registered User
Join Date: May 2018
Location: Milano
Posts: 59
|
Hmm so the situation is as follows: my TF530 does not like the new beta bus JEDs at all. I have tried with every possible hardware combination (with/without trapdoor expansion, with/without gary adapter, with/without chipmem mod etc., all permutations). But there is no setup where it works.
So I went back to the RC2 bus JED. At that point I programmed only the ram cpld with 11-4 beta JED and, lo and behold, the TF530 works perfectly and it recognizes all memory without issues. I ran systest on the 1MB chip mem, on the 2MB fast mem, and on the 1.5MB slow mem, and they all apparently work fine. The other odd thing I noticed is that IDE has become slower. According sysinfo, now I have speed around 800-900kB/s. Previously I had around 1.6 MB/s. Does this make sense to you? |
07 November 2018, 23:35 | #4056 | |
Banned
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: UK
Posts: 2,917
|
Quote:
Maybe. Can you confirm the resistor value you have on the IDEWAIT line? I would try the 11-4 beta bus code with the RC2 ram. If that doesnt work there is a hardware fault of some kind. |
|
07 November 2018, 23:46 | #4057 | |
Registered User
Join Date: May 2018
Location: Milano
Posts: 59
|
Quote:
Oh, and you asked about the ram chips, I have Alliance AS7C4096A-12TCN. I have left systest's all memory (=4.5MB) test running for quite some time, and it is going along without problems. I will try to reprogram the cplds tomorrow, the wife's already complaining |
|
08 November 2018, 06:03 | #4058 |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: NSW/Australia
Posts: 462
|
what?!?!? who nuked all your posts?
|
08 November 2018, 06:42 | #4059 |
-
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Helsinki / Finland
Age: 43
Posts: 9,949
|
It was his decision and he did it himself.
I guess I'll lock this thread for now, we'll reopen it if he decides to come back. Any meta discussion around him leaving should happen in another part of this forum. |
08 November 2018, 07:05 | #4060 | |
Global Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Might as well be WORK :(
Age: 57
Posts: 4,110
|
He did, because he doesn't know how to conduct himself on a forum properly and when confronted, reduces himself to childish behaviour by deleting his posts which is against the rules.
They will be returned soon. EDIT: All of plasmabs posts throughout EAB have now been restored, however, because of his childish behaviour and severity of his actions of deleting all his posts he has been given a permanent ban. Quote:
Last edited by DH; 08 November 2018 at 20:54. |
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 6 (0 members and 6 guests) | |
Thread Tools | |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Listening to Amiga music with too much treble makes it sound terrible! | Foebane | Amiga scene | 4 | 08 October 2016 06:30 |
Terrible usb drive performance? | lovinggames | support.FS-UAE | 5 | 11 March 2015 09:06 |
Broken MASPlayer - Terrible hissing. | SS454 | support.Hardware | 8 | 17 November 2013 01:41 |
Accelerators | pmc | MarketPlace | 9 | 04 November 2009 20:23 |
Problem with a terrible, simply effect! | Camionsauro | Coders. General | 13 | 19 April 2009 08:53 |
|
|