Buddha 2018

[klx300r]

boooo wheres mine! lets us know how it goes!

I bet you get yours in a few days...I'm hoping to have some spare time to update my Buddha over the long weekend but with all the landscaping and honey doos ya never know

Go JETS GO:hammer:

[Blatboy]

I got mine.

Tried it out tonight.
No love.

I get:

Maxretries exceeded
buddha-cpld-upgrade failed return code 10

That's when I boot up with the supplied floppy or if I boot up from the HD and run the utility via a shell.  And yeah, I've attached the cable correctly and am holding the cable as instructed when the update program runs.

Oh man... haha.  I swear I'm the Charlie Brown of the Amiga community.  I feel like I'm always saying "Good grief.  I got a rock."

Anyhoo, maybe I should try this with the 3640 removed?  Red herring?  Wild Goose Chase?  

Curious how it goes for everyone else...

[Blatboy]

Against my better judgment, I took off my 3640 and now, of course, the A3000 doesn't boot at all.

The 3640 was installed when I got the computer, so I'm not hip to how it was installed.  Are there jumpers on the A3000 motherboard I need to adjust if I take off the 3640, or should it just work?

[lost_loven]

There are jumper settings to go back to the 030 on board.. But maybe put the 040 back in and retry a few more times..Hopefully I get my cable in next few days.  Over at A1K.org there was similar probs and quote"  If necessary, try another Amiga, because that can also be due to a defective CIA. Or because maybe the pin strip is not properly plugged in the plug. So yes, keep trying until it works.

Or it's due to a broken cable - the likelihood is low with a brand new cable, but if you tear it sufficiently strong, you'll break everything. In the case, the wiring plan is public in the wiki; You can use a continuity checker pin by pin to check if the connections are still OK.

Jens           "

[Blatboy]

Thanks for the hot tip.  I have a couple more Amigas I can try it on.  Hopefully today if stars align.

[Blatboy]

I made the stars align

Tried on the 3000, the 1200, and the 500.  (I don't have the proper gender changer for it to work in the parallel port on the 1000)

The same thing happened (as before, see post 136 ) on each setup... I tried multiple times with each computer.

I'm pretty sure I'm getting a good connection with the cable.  One time on the 500, I held it more loosely, and I got a "bad connection" message, and the utility didn't even start.  That makes me think there isn't an issue with the cable or the connection I'm making normally.

I'll sit back and wait and see how it goes for others...

[madgrizzle]

See http://www.l8r.net/technical/t-a3640.shtml for jumper settings.

[lost_loven]

Have any other cards in? pull them? try different slots? Maybe discount the scsi drive when booting with the floppy so system sees nothing but. We have similar A3000D, hopefully we can figure something.

[Blatboy]

Thanks for this!

While I don't know if I'll take out the 3640 for this use case... after reading this I'm now thinking I'm understanding the voodoo that's always in my SCSI bus.  

Ok.  That's for another thread...

[Blatboy]

Have any other cards in? pull them? try different slots? Maybe discount the scsi drive when booting with the floppy so system sees nothing but. We have similar A3000D, hopefully we can figure something.

Somehow I missed your post here.
On the 3000, I took out all the cards and the scsi drives when I was testing.

Yeah.  I'll hold tight and see how it goes for you.  

[klx300r]

got around to doing the CPLD update and firmware upgrade in my A4000 and initially it didn't work so tried again putting steady pressure to one side of the card for better contact and voila update went fine and so did firmware update from disk:hammer: Now my CF card works on either port along with the original DOM but unfortunately a larger 8GB DOM I couldn't get to work still BUT no problems as I can use that in of my other miggies.
All in all very happy with the Buddha as I was having on/off gurus and constant resets with the onboard IDE and now with update boot up is guru/ reste free so happy amigan here:knuddel::pint:


@ lost_loven


sorry about the Jets we were cheering hard here but Fleury was just unbelievable and honestly deserves playoff MVP this year

[lost_loven]

The upgrade was a success first try here is some pics and how I held the cable from boot up.  
And that is with all my cards in including the 68040 still running. Now will try install the 120gig SSD  and the 32gig cf with microsd adapter.. Stay tuned!

[ATTACH]6138[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]6139[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]6140[/ATTACH]

[Blatboy]

Wow!  That's great!

Man... I must be cursed.  Tried again many times today and yesterday on the 500 and the 1200, using a multitude of pressure levels.  Still no CPLD love.

Now that I have taken my 3640 off and put it back on a couple times, the 3000 doesn't want to boot at all.  Another day in the life...  [tangent:  I wonder about those caps on the 3640...]

Anyway.   I also checked the pins on the cable, and an initial check seems to line up ok.  Though the "1" embossed in the cable on the DB25 side puts pin 1 on the wrong side. If you're looking at the business end of a male DB25 connector, pin 1 is on the top left, correct?  

I'll try some more tomorrow.

I was considering soldering on the cable just to take that part out of the troubleshooting equation.  I have a nice desoldering gun, so I can clean it up pretty well when I'm done...

[lost_loven]

get it going?

[mechy]

motherboard jumpers need to be changed back to use the internal 030 on the A3000.

[wbrejnia]

Great! I think Curtis needs to do that too - at least check his revision.

@gazsp If the BFlashTool V1.3 is loaded, will it show the current revision without actually flashing CPLD?

@curtis Here's the latest flash tool for 20th anniversary Buddha....
http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/File:BFlashTool.lha

Just remember the CPLD update tool is a different utility, named Buddha_CPLD.  It comes in a separate archive on the iComp wiki.  You have to use a cable you either make, or Jens sends you (at the end of March) to update the CPLD from the Amiga's parallel port to the header on the card itself.  The card MUST be plugged into a Zorro slot at the time, else, the card will not be detected by the CPLD update utility, and it will error out and fail. 

The flash ROM, instead, can be updated directly to the card over the Zorro bus with no cables, from command line.

Make sure, with both utilities, that when they ask if you want to proceed with updating, you press CAPITAL Y, else it will not start.


To update the CPLD, you need BOTH of these archives (one is the update files, the other is the updater):

http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/File:Buddha_CPLD.zip

http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/File:BuddhaCPLD.lha

Update the CPLD *first* and then flash the ROM, else it doesn't work.  After doing both of my cards, they now work as they should.

Hello there,

I just ordered a BUDDHA card for a A2000 that's been sitting idle for a year.
Done everything possible I could with HW for A2000 last time I had it out,  so this Card appeared to be a interesting project.
I've got IDE Drives, SD Cards, Compact Flash Cards, and associate IDE Adapters, and other stuff for the Fully Loaded A2k.

From what I read thru on this thread there are some issues that need to be worked thru (in in post quoted), but otherwise it works.

Is that true?
Anything else I should know about from everyone's experience with a A2000.

Looking forward to the Card Arriving.