pcmcia reset chip

[zyphoid]

does anyone know in detail how to install the reset chip or better yet have a step by step with pictures? I have a socketed chip board here that i assume a chip of some sort fits into, or it sits on top of. it also has some connectors on either end .. a pair of 14 and a pair of 2. I need something to do this weekend to my amiga, haven't torn it apart lately!

[murple]

Does this really need a chip? I installed 2 programs from Aminet (CardReset and CardPatch) that I needed to work around the reset issue to install a PCMCIA ethernet card... I've heard of these chips but never actually seen one. You might check the BBoAH, I think it mentions these and says that basically you pull a chip from the motherboard, put the board in, and put the chip back on the board's socket.

I could be completely wrong since I didnt read it carefully, but, BBoAH is always a great place to start with any new piece of Amiga hardware.

http://amigahardware.mariomisic.de/index_e.html

[zyphoid]

You're right Murple, but for whatever reason, my system is difficult....or it could be me! either war, I'll checkout the link.  I thought you shouldn't use cardreset and cardpatch together?

[murple]

I have a 3Com (3c589) PCMCIA ethernet card. The 3c589 driver for Amiga specifically mentions needing both CardPatch and CardReset in your S:user-startup for it to work. I did what it said and everything works fine.

I suppose it depends what card you're using in there... my PCMCIA Compact Flash reader for example worked perfectly without any changes to the PCMCIA system.

[zyphoid]

got you. I've got a netgear 16bit MA401 that I'm tinkering with. even with the card reset it wasn't accessed all the time, but like i said, it could be me though, for one, i didn't include it in startup, i brought up a cli then typed card reset.