GGSData got the A1XE mobos today!!! (Datakompaniet to have them early next week!!!)

[filson]

Nice one. be waiting to see them in The Netherlands.

[filson]

@olegil

well personally I don't care much for the boards that aren't currently headding towards Holland  :-D But I am happy that they are shipping in the first place.

BTW: anyone know why VIA was chosen for the southbridge? VIA doesn't have the best reputation for good PCI/IDE I/O. And they aren't the cheapest ones either.

[filson]

@bloodline

I'm not going to rant on you, bloodline, since you were so nice to wake me up from the amiga time machine thread  :-D
but it is a known fact that VIAs southbridges contain "undocumented" features that some PC mobo makers like Abit use, that create a slight speed increase but will cause data corruption on the IDE channels if used in combo with e.g Soundblaster Audigy/Live.

After waisting more than 150 hours on debugging this problem I don't buy VIA any more.

And some basic pci transfer testing will show that Intel delivers the closest to the pci max, 110MB/s, then SiS, ALi and last VIA at 67MB/s

I have all the faith that the new Amigas are going to be a blast and that Ainc. wont make any stupid stunts so this probably wont be an issue anyhow.

[filson]

@Elektro

Ok, well the stick a Audigy2 card in a Abit KR7 and see what happens. very wierd stuff  :-D
After searching some time it turns out that this is indeed a VIA bug. not a SoundBlaster. what should happen is that SB cards (among others) is using some very long bursts, around 32 bytes. And VIA (bug enabled) can only handle PCI bursts up to 24 bytes.
In the linux world this bug is called the AMD bugstomper.
Once this bug is out, AMD is just as stable as Intel.  :-D

A quick swap to SiS, and there is nothing wrong with the Audigy card. go figure.. :-)

[filson]

@blodline
would AROS also support the SiS onboard sound?
got some nice spatial 3d sound emuls.
I could test for you if you'd be interested. :-D