Deneb install

[Darrin]

platon42 wrote:

There is a glitch in the installer routine. If you boot with the  Deneb  in
Rescue  mode,  it  will  place  the  Deneb itself in Zorro II mode for best
compatiblity. If you now run the  installer,  it  will  always  generate  a
PsdStackloader  with  the  denebz2usb.device  for Zorro II and not with the
denebpiousb.device for Zorro III operation.

If you remove the jumper for normal operation and have a Zorro III machine,
the  Z2-Device  driver  won't be working and the Deneb stays offline -- you
have to open Trident and configure the right device  and  save  the  prefs.
That should do the trick (if this is the problem in your case). I apologise
for the inconveniences.

Best regards and enjoy your Deneb board.

Ah, is that why it seems to have a hard time detecting devices after a clean install on my A4000?  I always had to click around, open trident, restart it, etc and then after a reboot or two it would then work perfectly.

Are you aware of any problems with the Deneb and the Cybervision 643D?  Before I left home I had them both in the A4000 (along with the Fast ATA4000) and the Deneb was working fine and the CV643D card showed up on the early boot, but whenever I tried to install the CV4 drivers I would get an error on installer and the machine would reboot.  I didn't have time to investigate it any further or to try installing Picasso64 instead.

[Darrin]

bash64 wrote:

What do I do to get the full 149GB?

If it is a second HD then how about partitioning and formatting it as a PC FAT drive?  The Deneb folder has the installer for the FAT98 file system, but I've never played with a drive that big from the Amiga side.

[Darrin]

platon42 wrote:
It's not about detecting USB devices, but about activating the USB hardware driver *at all*. If you have correctly added the right device, there shouldn't be these kind of problems.

Ah, it must be me then.  It just seems to have trouble detecting the memory stick for the first time and then after that it's happy to accept any device and correctly mounts and dismounts them on the fly (DVD drive and various hard drives connected to a IDE/SATA-to-USB adapter are all I've tested).

Yes. The CV64/3D has problems with quick timing the Deneb uses (though they are all within the Zorro specifications) and causes bus errors for memory accesses which are not meant for the CV64/3D at all. This at least affects the DMA mode. Michael Böhmer has an experimental firmware upgrade available to fix this (please contact him).

Ah, thanks for that info.  I'll see if I can track down an email for Michael and drop him a line.  I can live without the CV643D, but it would be nice to have it working.

Cheers.