Fastlane firmware chip rev. 8.5 needed

[lostrego]

Hello there, I have a Fastlane Z3 that has been sadly stuck on a shelfh, just getting dust since I updated my Cyberstorm mkII from 040 to 060 some time ago...

 Does anyone still have one those firmware chips with Z3scsi.device rev. 8.5 for sell at a reasonable price?


 :-)

[omnicron]

I have the firmware file and the chips but not a burner.  I can send you both if you want but you will have to find someone who has a eprom burner to that can adapt to the package of the rom for the Z3.. that is how I got my Z3 updated.

I have never been a big eprom burner person so I dont know the exact requirements of the the device they need.

Let me know.

[x56h34]

If you have the firmware file(s), just send it to Amiga Centre in France and JJB will be able to burn it for you. That's how I recently upgraded my Blizzard 2060's SCSI firmware to rev 8.5.

It wasn't cheap, but it was the easiest way of doing it, as JJB obtained the right eproms and burned the firmware onto them.

[Castellen]

Email me your address, PayPal me US$10 for the first one inc postage, then US$5 for each EPROM you want after that.

Cheers,
Anthony.

[amiga4001]

I also have a retina installed here.
It is running with a cyberstormppc with a 060 processor.
Z3scsidevice is here 5.1034 as I have no scsidevices attaches at the moment I can't tell it should not work.
Does it indeed give problems on the 060?
The memory is working allright here.
If it does effect I may also be interested in a newer rom.

[Castellen]

I know some people have trouble with Fastlane SCSI in the A3000 (conflicts with the motherboard SCSI???), though the memory side of it works OK.  It should work OK in the A4000 with 68060.

It's supposed to work irrespective of the Buster revision, the Fastlane board is supposed to have a workaround for the Buster 9 DMA problem which was fixed with Buster 11.

You'd have better performance using the UWSCSI controller on the CyberstormPPC board as opposed to using the Fastlane's narrow SCSI controller.

Still, you can have a new Fastlane EPROM if you like.  See above.

[lostrego]

Well , first, many thanks to all, now my Fastlane will be working ok soon ;-)

 In response to amiga4001: AFAIK part of it should work ok under 060 with older versions of Z3scsi.device (version 5.1034 here also), at least the RAM expansion but the SCSI part will be just non operative

 Today I put it back on my Amiga (A4000D rev.B, Buster rev.11 and with a Cyberstorm MKII 060@66 ) and booted from IDE ok and give no errors at all (well, no SCSI devices attached yet) but Scout tells that the the Z3scsi.device is present but couldn't be opened so here is the error.

 And, as said Castellen before, I also find a Fastlane redundant if you have a CyberstormPPC, wich has its own UWSCSI controller (a lot faster than any SCSI-II controller out there...) and for the RAM expansion I think than the max. 128 MB of the CSPPC should be enough (for not to mention that this RAM is also a lot faster than the Fastlane's RAM expansion)

 In my case using a Fastlane makes a bit more sense as I'm running an overclocked 060 and the Cyberscsi module for the CSMKII that I have does not tolerate overclock. So It's a way of bringing back SCSI to my amiga without loosing CPU speed downclocking the 060 back to 50 Mhz

 :-)