eFlash 4000 (2mb version) and OS 3.9

[Framiga]

Kristian95 wrote:
Ah, thanks for the tips on SpeedyIDE and SpeedyChip
I'll probably go for IDE-> SCSI adapter sometime... but first I need to have the SCSI CD-ROM working, I know that is noob stuff, but I never had a big box Amiga back in the day so this is a first for me, i.e. a little help will definately be appreciated. The CD-ROM drive is attached to my CSPPC SCSI controller and I have not been able to enter the early boot menu for the CSPPC .

first do in a shell  

version cybppc.device full

and report here (what GFX card you have?)

second ... while i know that an Acard SCSI to IDE adapter, "sounds" expensive, togheter to a cheap 52x ATA CDROM or CDRW , you will get the maximum speed without SCSI2 bottlenecking.

AEC-7720UW for CSPPC

[wawrzon]

thats exactly what i would advise too. modern ide dvd-writers connencted on acard adapter are by all means superior to any old scsi drives. i hold such in both of my 060a4ks and had never again any problems with writing a cd or whatsoever, which before on native yamaha or hp scsi drive was quite an issue to master..

[Kristian95]

I have gotten the CD drive up and running.. it turned out the early boot menu at first was not accessible due to old ROM version, after that I had to press space bar to get out of 31 kHz mode and voila early boot screen

As for acard, I would need one acard for every IDE device I want to hook up or is one acard enough ??
Also, what kind of UW SCSI cable would be good ?? I looked at the acards and it seems they need a SCSI cable with male plugs whereas my CSPPC card, my SCSI cd-rom drive (until I might get a new IDE one) need female plugs on the SCSI cable

[Framiga]

an Acard adapter for every device used and not, you don't need any special scsi cable.

Any Acard adapter carries good active termination also, hence you will need only one active terminator close to the CSPPC uwscsi connector.

[Kristian95]

yikes, that'll be a fair amount of cash then as I have 2 cf cards that would need an Acard

[wawrzon]

@platon42:
by the way, if im going to get something from e3b in the near future it will sure be deneb. as you are part of the project, the question i would have is: will its flashrom be able to hold the modified kickstart available at a cold boot too?

[platon42]

wawrzon wrote:
@platon42:
by the way, if im going to get something from e3b in the near future it will sure be deneb. as you are part of the project, the question i would have is: will its flashrom be able to hold the modified kickstart available at a cold boot too?

If you got a board with MapROM feature (e.g. phase5 boards), sure (there are no other means for a Zorro board to directly mirror the kickstart image at 0xf80000). This works with the Algor and the Romulus already, too. The 4 MB of user flashrom is big enough to hold plenty of stuff (e.g. to boot MorphOS PowerUp).

[Boot_WB]

@Thread

I have a spare 50-pin ACARD adapter (AEC-7720U) - advertised an Amibay at the moment.

£25 including UK postage - also includes a 68>50 pin adapter.

[wawrzon]

platon42: thank you. this might be the solution then, since i got the csmk1'S. the only thing i mistrust a little is mirroring and holding the updated rom in the memory since it seems to cause problems with warm-resets, so maybe i would still have to look @ some replacement that fits in the kickstart socket as alternative

[platon42]

wawrzon wrote:
platon42: thank you. this might be the solution then, since i got the csmk1'S. the only thing i mistrust a little is mirroring and holding the updated rom in the memory since it seems to cause problems with warm-resets, so maybe i would still have to look @ some replacement that fits in the kickstart socket as alternative

I also have a CS 060 MK I and have no problems with it whatsoever. The RAM on the mainboard that is used for the shadow kickstart image is write protected right after copying and stays this way even across reboots. I've had hardly any problems that would require turning off the machine (there are other and by far worse stability problems created by mechanical fit problems in my machine currently).