Tf1260

[Chucky]

it is a completly other beast of dev to make it work on 3000/4000 (especially 3000)

[Damion]

Originally Posted by Chucky

https://www.exxoshost.co.uk/forum/vi...p=76280#p76280

New TF1260 firmware. 100MHz enabled! etc

This is super cool!

Question: from my experiences with various (last revision) '060's, while they "seemed" perfectly OK at 100 MHz (even running Quake for a few hours), I noticed that the FPU at least wasn't perfectly reliable--the "AmigaMark" FPU benchmark would crash perhaps 2 or 3/5 tries. Also, various '060 demos would run sluggishly in parts vs 66 or 80 MHz.

Granted, this was with a modified CSMK2. Presumably these newer cards increase voltage slightly for stability?

Edit: Second question! How is the card's chipram read/write performance? (Rather important for some demos of course, this made the old Apollo 1260 a beast at 80 MHz.)

[supaduper]

Originally Posted by Damion

This is super cool!


Edit: Second question! How is the card's chipram read/write performance? (Rather important for some demos of course, this made the old Apollo 1260 a beast at 80 MHz.)

Chip speed output from `bustest`

[Damion]

Originally Posted by supaduper

Chip speed output from `bustest`

Attachment 74214

Excellent, thank you!

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by supaduper

Chip speed output from `bustest`

Attachment 74214

Now repeat the test using RTG RAM, whatever you have, Picasso-II, Piccolo, GVP Spectrum, etc.

[supaduper]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

Now repeat the test using RTG RAM, whatever you have, Picasso-II, Piccolo, GVP Spectrum, etc.

I have non of those so someone else will need to supply that data

[klx300r]

got around to updating my firmware last night and happy with results I posted on my blog http://mancave-ramblings.blogspot.co...celerator.html

[Daishi]

Lets remember that Quake (on the PC) on anything before the Pentium (integrated FPU) had a low single digit FPS. People seem to forget this and with faulty memories seem to think the Amiga was alone with terrible framerates.

[rabidgerry]

Is there anyway to use the ehide.device with ClassicWB 3.1 Full and 3.2 roms?

I have messed about with this this morning but the only way I got anywhere was by going into early boot menu and selecting the CF card that was on the TF's IDE (after rebooting from the boot cf card on A1200 IDE which has the ehide loaded via load module of course). I guess the issue is coming from the fact the 3.2 roms have scsi.device onboard.

I know there is a way to build a custom 3.2 rom but I can't really be arsed with that at the minute. Just want to know is that the only way to use 3.2roms with the ehide.

Another thing I noticed was when I did get into the cf card on the TF's IDE it wouldn't let me change speed. Without ehide I can get a few speeds, the most important being a stable 100mhz.

[Chucky]

Boot on internal IDE..

add in start of S:Startup-Sequence

Loadmodule >NIL: devs:ehide.device

it will reboot and then ehide will be present and if a drive with higher bootprio is located there. it will boot from it.

[Falcon_11]

Chucky perfect

I wouldn't have written it better.


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[Chucky]

and then as there is a device on the internal IDE you will not have the annoying wait-time waiting for a device on the internal drive.
have a small disk there with a small WB installation to have as a rescue-disk if something happens.

[rabidgerry]

I already had that on the CF card on A1200 IDE.

Anyways I figured out how to change the boot priority of the TF IDE cf card and now it boots properly into that main system. However still the same performance issues. Managed to change speed to 70mhz but 75,80,85,90,100 all crashed the system. Back to regular setup I guess booting from A1200 IDE where I can enjoy the speed changes. The IDE performance isn't terrible anyways, I get about 2.3mbps just using my Amiga and the TF1260. I just wanted to test out ehide.device and put that nagging itch to bed.

[crazyc]

I am confused. So are you saying that using the same cf card and system, booting off the tf ide means the higher cpuspeeds dont work whereas they don't you boot from the motherboard ide? As far as I know, and in my own experience this should not make any difference.
Are you certain its not picking up something on the motherboard card rather than the tfide one?

[Chucky]

75-83ish currently have issues.
but. out of 99 or 100 times people have problems wiuth changing cpu speed is that they never read the readme file of the alpha firmware telling they MUST update the cpuspeed command. it is actually funny that there are a readme file still so many fail to read that damn file and complain that "stuff doesn't work" so please check that it is updated.

www.tf1260.com is a good source..

[rabidgerry]

Originally Posted by crazyc

I am confused. So are you saying that using the same cf card and system, booting off the tf ide means the higher cpuspeeds dont work whereas they don't you boot from the motherboard ide? As far as I know, and in my own experience this should not make any difference.
Are you certain its not picking up something on the motherboard card rather than the tfide one?

So A1200 IDE, I can change speeds and use fine (well some of them 100mhz being one of them). But if I use TF IDE with A1200 IDE to boot I can't change speeds without a crash.

The only thing I could think off was it something weird to do with the fact that both drives I used have the name dh0 on there even though it will rename the duplicate partition names to dh0_a for example. Perhaps this clash is the issue?

I used superdupers CF card to act as my A1200 IDE card and then used my own on the TF IDE.

So even though I got it to boot (I see all superdupers card partitions there as well so may be I need a basic build to act as my loader?) it doesn't operate the same as it does when I just use it on my A1200 alone.

Originally Posted by Chucky

75-83ish currently have issues.
but. out of 99 or 100 times people have problems wiuth changing cpu speed is that they never read the readme file of the alpha firmware telling they MUST update the cpuspeed command. it is actually funny that there are a readme file still so many fail to read that damn file and complain that "stuff doesn't work" so please check that it is updated.

www.tf1260.com is a good source..

I only got a couple of weeks ago and I was supplied with a link to the latest cpuspeed command by superduper. I'm not complaining stuff doesn't work, it does work for me, just doesn't work with ehide.device. And from what I understand from TF himself it's experimental? May be wrong word to describe it but I was expecting nothing anyways. I just decided to try it out.

[Chucky]

when released the ehide.device was expereimental.. but there are also updated versions of this that works.. (again. readme file)

[crazyc]

Swap in the roms with ehide included and just boot your card from the ehide.

[TjLaZer]

Does the lastest beta Firware have the ehide.device in it?

[supaduper]

Originally Posted by TjLaZer

Does the lastest beta Firware have the ehide.device in it?

Yes his card has the latest firmware and has the latest ehide.device bundled with it:
ehide.device details below:
IDE Driver 1.1 (18.6.21) Built on 18 Jun 2021 / 15:59:03 (d2874a8) © 2021 Erik Hemming

Also I have contacted rabidgerry and gave him some helpful hints