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A600 + pcmcia sram + CF Ide + Whdload = Problems
I've an A600 with 2 MB Chip, a 2MB PCMCIA SRAM card and a 2.5" hard drive. With these specs I can use Whdload without problems: almost all games work flawlessly.
Today, I've installed a CF-IDE adaptor with a 2GB CF card. All seemed to work out well but when I tried to run a Whdload game (Turrican 2) it didn't work. Strange, let's try another I said: more errors, another one: more errors. No game worked ![]() I removed the SRAM and the games worked again ![]() So, are the SRAM + CF combo incompatible? btw, here is the error I get after trying to run Turrican 3: Exception "Access Fault" ($0) PC = $368D0 255? from/to $43D9 Thanks in advance. |
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What's the mask on your HD partition and CF partition?
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CF: Custom File System / Mask = 0xfffffe
Harddrive: Fast File System / Mask = 0x7ffffffe Maybe the problem is that the CF card was formatted under WinUAE, with the adapter connected to the PC IDE. Should I try to use the A600 to format the card? |
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You try set maxtransfer to 0x1fe00
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@Visper
Have you tried using this cf and setup under WinUAE ? |
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Success!!
Formatted the CF card with the A600 using FFS and now whdload works! |
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Excellent news!
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I use my A1200 for whdload, I wouldn't be able to use my A600 because the top of the case is glued to the bottom
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This sounds to me like you didn't really read and understand where the problem lies and just offered the maxtransfer size as a catch all solution.
Let's go back to the problem report: Quote:
And as he replied, the mask was different between the HD and CF partitions.. Quote:
But something still puzzles me.. The mask for the CF was narrower than for the HD. Hmm. http://www.xs4all.nl/~hjohn/SFS/mask.htm Visper, can you give us the mask settings what you have on the CF now? Last edited by Jope; 07 August 2008 at 22:58. |
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Anyway, I spoke too soon, because after connecting the CF to the PC IDE and copying the games with WinUAE, the problem came back ![]() It could be that, for some unknown reason, WinUAE is the culprit here ![]() |
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I still think it is maxtransfer-related problem. WinUAE does not have problems with maxtransfer (perhaps I should optionally emulate this "feature"..) and "too" big maxtransfer setting can create incompatible data if read on real Amiga+HD that has maxtransfer "bug".
Make sure maxtransfer is set to 0xfe00 before writing to the CF. Also try using "IDE0" harddrive controller option. EDIT: You said you use "latest" WinUAE with PCMCIA SRAM. Note that pre-1.5.1 WinUAE do not fully support PCMCIA SRAM in memory expansion mode. Last edited by Toni Wilen; 08 August 2008 at 10:09. |
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Thanks for the tips. I'll try it.
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With the settings Toni provided the A600 seems to work properly
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